January 27, 2021

ArtCenter Exhibitions Receives Grant for the Next Pacific Standard Time

The region-wide collaboration opening in 2024 will explore intersections of art and science

ArtCenter College of Design announced today that ArtCenter Exhibitions has received a grant to prepare for the next edition of the region-wide arts initiative Pacific Standard Time, scheduled to open in 2024.

ArtCenter Exhibitions is one of 45 cultural, educational and scientific institutions throughout Southern California to receive support from the Getty Foundation for their projects, all of which will explore the intersection of art and science.

Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA will include dozens of simultaneous exhibitions and programs focused on the intertwined histories of art and science, past and present, that together address some of the most complex challenges of the 21st century—from climate change and environmental racism to the current pandemic and artificial intelligence—and the creative solutions these problems demand.

The Getty Foundation funded ArtCenter Exhibitions project is tentatively titled Seeing the Unseeable: Intersections in Data, Science, Art and Design.  We live in the age of Big Data: extremely large data sets collected from multiple sources by scientists, businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and others. Data visualization--the practice of representing data--is one of the primary tools used to make these massive amounts of data understandable, transforming it into knowledge. Within the sciences, data visualization conveys information in a compelling manner; in art, it transforms information into a canvas for creative expression. Over the past 20 years, artists and designers have incorporated data visualization into their work, both as a way of critiquing it and as a new form of storytelling. Seeing the Unseeable: Intersections in Data, Science, Art and Design will explore how art, science and design have become integrated in the work of both scientists and contemporary artists.

“We’re thrilled to receive this vital support from the Getty Foundation and inspired by this collective effort to explore the ubiquitous art science intersection in all its cultural complexities,” said Stephen Nowlin, head of ArtCenter Exhibitions, a program of public exhibition spaces at the College's Pasadena campuses and in downtown Los Angeles. He is joined in co-curating the exhibition by ArtCenter’s Senior Curator Julie Joyce, and ArtCenter DTLA Program Director Christina Valentine.

ArtCenter College of Design joins a diverse community of Southern California institutions that will present exhibitions, publications, performances and public conversations and programs in 2024 as part of Pacific Standard Time.

“We applaud our partners for embracing remarkably diverse and imaginative approaches to this PST’s theme of art and science,” says Joan Weinstein, director of the Getty Foundation. “Beyond the inventiveness they are bringing to their individual research topics, they will build new community partnerships and engage the public in civic dialogues around pressing issues of our time. This will be a PST defined by creativity, curiosity, and community.”

About Pacific Standard Time

Pacific Standard Time is an unprecedented series of collaborations among institutions across Southern California. In each, organizations simultaneously present research-based exhibitions and programs that explore and illuminate a significant theme in the region’s cultural history.

In Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, more than 60 cultural institutions joined forces between October 2011 and March 2012 and rewrote the history of the birth and impact of the L.A. art scene. In Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, presented from September 2017 through January 2018, more than 70 institutions collaborated on a paradigm-shifting examination of Latin American and Latinx art, seen together as a hemispheric continuum.

Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty.

About ArtCenter Exhibitions ArtCenter Exhibitions includes the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at its north campus in Pasadena, the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Gallery and the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall at its south campus in Pasadena, and ArtCenter DTLA Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. These curated spaces embody ArtCenter's institutional will to understand artistic thinking and design strategies as levers in promoting social advancement, the pursuit of humanitarian innovation and use of critical inquiry to clarify objectives and truths. Using the lens of contemporary art and design, the mission of ArtCenter Exhibitions is to ignite emotional resonance, provoke intellectual dissonance and conjure unexpected pathways of thinking.

About ArtCenter Founded in 1930 and located in Pasadena, California, ArtCenter College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. ArtCenter offers 11 undergraduate and seven graduate degrees in a wide variety of industrial design disciplines as well as visual and applied arts. In addition to its top-ranked academic programs, the College also serves members of the Greater Los Angeles region through a highly regarded series of year-round educational programs for all ages and levels of experience. Renowned for both its ties to industry and its social impact initiatives, ArtCenter is the first design school to receive the United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status. Throughout the College’s long and storied history, ArtCenter alumni have had a profound impact on popular culture, the way we live and important issues in our society.

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