S1 Ep6 Counter Surveillance | Fusing Art & Science | PBS SoCal
The exhibition Counter/Surveillance traces the historical roots of surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them. The exhibit juxtaposes surveillance methods with modern technologies such as facial recognition, data mining, and phone tracking. These technologies, often perceived as novel, have deep roots in the history of detection, spying, and countermeasures that have influenced divisions among nations, classes, and races. This episode focuses on the work of a variety of artists including Ken Gonzales-Day and Liat Segal, who examine and critique surveillance through their work at the Wende exhibit.
S1 Ep4 George Washington Carver’s Legacy of Art, Science, and Discovery | Fusing Art & Science | PBS SoCal
George Washington Carver was many things over his lifetime: a student, a teacher, an artist, a researcher, an environmentalist, a pianist, an inventor. A new exhibit weaves his rare artworks and unpublished materials and contemporary art by those influenced by his legacy. This constellation of stories tells a new story of Carver and showcases his impact nearly a century later.
S1 Ep1 Views of Planet City | Fusing Art & Science | PBS SoCal
Hyperdense megalopolises are often the cities of dystopian worlds. But a city built for 10-billion people could thrive and let the rest of the earth rewild. Planet City is the conceptual world Liam Young has built with numerous scientists, theorists, architects, writers, and more. Views of this possible city are presented in an expansive transmedia project.
S1 Ep2 Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific | Fusing Art & Science | PBS SoCal
Energy Fields examines approaches to vibration, sound, and kinetic energy shared by artists and scientists working in the Pacific region across the 20th century to the present day. From sound sculptures to artworks that detect tectonic vibrations of the earth, this exhibit listens into the electromagnetic and seismic activity of the Pacific.
S1 Ep3 Open Sky | Fusing Art & Science | PBS SoCal
Open Sky brings together the work of contemporary artists exploring light and space as both material and subject, inviting us to reconsider our place in the universe. Inspired by James Turrell’s Dividing the Light at Pomona College, the exhibition includes Moon Mine, a site-specific song cycle by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, blending voices and instruments to explore cosmic journeys and unexpected destinies.
S1 Ep5 For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability | Fusing Art & Science | PBS SoCal
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability explores how illness and disability have shaped American art since the 1960s, spotlighting artists like Katherine Sherwood, a stroke survivor. Her work delves into disability, gender, and historical narratives, while her class, Art, Medicine, Disability, pushes boundaries, challenging ideas of access, care, and the body’s resistance to societal expectations.