Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty

Title

Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty

Artist/Creator

Ralf Baecker, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, Newton Harrison and The Harrison Studio, Forrest and Lula Kirkland, Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio (Cesar & Lois), Chico MacMurtrie, Julie Mehretu, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Fernando Palma Rodríguez, Clare Rojas, Theresa Schubert, Laura Splan, Hege Tapio, Gail Wight, and Pinar Yoldas

Description

The Beall Center for Art + Technology's exhibition for Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide, curated by David Familian, offering artistic frameworks for understanding complex systems, which churn between order and chaos and generate feedback loops, self-organization, and uncertain behavior. From climate change and global warming to evolutionary biology, bacterial intelligence, data surveillance, financial collapse, and immigration politics, the works considered phenomena too entwined to be observed individually. Gail Wight explored how ocean acidification drives rapid evolution in aquatic microbial communities, and Theresa Schubert examined how the expansion of digital infrastructure feeds global temperature rise. Laura Splan, Chico MacMurtrie, Hege Tapio, Gail Wight, and the collective Cesar & Lois created new commissions through the Beall's Black Box Projects residency, which pairs visiting artists with UC Irvine researchers. A satellite installation, Sketches of Sensorium, drawn from Newton Harrison's Sensorium for the World Ocean, was presented at the AlloSphere at UC Santa Barbara.

Event Type

Exhibition

Date

August 24, 2024 – January 4, 2025

Location

Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, Irvine, California

Organizer

Curated by David Familian, Beall Center Artistic Director; part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide

Affiliated Organizations

UC Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Beall Center for Art and Technology

Geographic Scope

International / Global

Climate & Ecology Themes

Oceans and Coasts

Carbon and Greenhouse Gases

Biodiversity and Species Loss

Discipline / Field

Arts & Design

Natural Sciences

Engineering & Technology

Interdisciplinary

Concepts

Speculative Futures and Imagination

More-than-Human Relations

Audience / Engagement Type

Public / General Audience

Methods & Approaches

Art and Science Collaboration

Data Visualization

Scientific / Ecological Research

Rights

Rights held by artist or creator

Website

beallcenter.uci.edu