The UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology is pleased to open its fall 2024 program, Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty, produced in partnership with Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide. 

A soft opening reception is scheduled this Saturday, August 24, from 2-5pm, with an artist program at 4:00pm. The panel will feature PST artists Ralf Baecker, Cesar & Lois, Chico MacMurtrie, Laura Splan, and Hege Tapio, four of whom are premiering newly commissioned works in our PST exhibition.

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Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty invites visitors to experience how complex systems adapt over time to evolving conditions. From climate change to financial collapse, data surveillance to immigration politics, weather patterns to cultural histories, the exhibition offers artistic frameworks for studying a world where phenomena are too entwined to be observed individually. 

Featuring work by Ralf Baecker, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, Newton Harrison and The Harrison Studio, Forrest and Lula Kirkland, 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.

Full program details may be accessed here.

Soft Opening Reception Program: August 24, 2024, 2-5pm
UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology

2:00pm - Doors open

3:30pm - Introductory remarks

4:00pm - Artist program begins 

4:30pm - Panel begins
Co-moderated by David Familian, exhibition curator, and Jeffrey Barrett, lead scientific advisor. Featuring: 
Ralf Baecker (Berlin, DE)
Cesar & Lois (San Marcos, CA / Campinas, BR)
Chico MacMurtrie (New York, NY)
Laura Splan (New York, NY)
Hege Tapio (Stavanger, NO)

This program will be followed by a main campus opening on October 5, 2024.

Admission is free. Support for this exhibition and opening program comes from The Beall Family Foundation and Getty.