unaulutu Artist Book, PST ART Opens, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

Along with the rest of the city of Los Angeles, the GRI is eagerly anticipating the launch of PST ART: Art and Science Collide this month. Here at the GRI, we are presenting “Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.),” which will showcase a corpus of twentieth-century projects that sat at the vibrant intersection of engineering ingenuity and aesthetic practice. Stay tuned for the exhibition, which opens on September 9, and its associated programs. And then, imagine our show amplified in countless other exhibitions and programs held here at Getty and at partner institutions in Los Angeles and across Southern California. It is going to be a lively autumn!
 

We are poised to kick off the 2023-24 scholar year on the weighty and relevant theme of “Extinction.” Seventeen international scholars will be arriving at Getty throughout the year to explore this topic through their research. Their studies will investigate the devastations of species-level extinction, the enormity of civilizational demise, and the tolls of technological obsolescence, with a focus on how such phenomena may be expressed or contended with through artistic and material practices. This theme will serve as a unifying strand in our public programs next year, including two film screenings in the fall that will highlight indigenous languages and cultures and the struggle for survival.

– Mary Miller, Director of the Getty Research Institute

Applications Closing Soon for Library Research Grants

The Getty Library offers short-term grants for researchers—including undergraduates— providing partial support for travel to Los Angeles to use our collections. In addition to the open call for applications, the following focused grants are available:

Whitney and Lee Kaplan African American Visual Culture Library Research Grant supports research that uses an encyclopedia and interdisciplinary collection of published works related to African American art.

Anne Willan and Mark Cherniavsky Gastronomy Collection of Rare and Contemporary Books Library Research Grant supports projects that use the collection to research culinary history and the visual culture, preparation, and presentation of food.
 

Conservation Collection Library Research Grant supports research that utilizes the collection developed by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and which consists of specialized research materials related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.

Applications are due on October 1, 2024 at 5pm PT.
 

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Applications Closing Soon for Scholars Program 2025-26

The Scholars Program invites applications from scholars and professionals whose work addresses our 2025–26 annual theme of Repair. We offer Scholar Grants for established researchers, Pre- and Post-Doc Fellowships to support early career scholars, and dedicated grants for scholars working to expand critical inquiry of African American art and its frameworks as part of Getty’s African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI).

Situated between creation and destruction, the act of repair can be deeply transformative, with the potential to heal, alter, and renew the material environment. Beyond such physical interventions, art and sites of commemoration are often mobilized to heal a fractured social fabric. The issue of repair has deep bearing for the arts, conceived in the broadest sense, and especially for institutions that aim to preserve and share global cultural heritage.

Deadline for GRI applications for the 2025–26 year is October 1, 2024 at 5pm PT.

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Finding Aid

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti correspondence and papers, 1886–1974 (bulk 1900–1944)

The Italian poet and theorist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) was the founder and leader of the Italian Futurist movement. Marinetti’s correspondence and papers comprise writings, photographs, and printed matter that document the history of Futurism from its beginning in the journal Poesia, through World War I, and less comprehensively, through World War II and its aftermath.
 

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PST ART Opening Event: Cai Guo-Qiang’s “WE ARE”

Sunday, September 15, 2024, 4:30–7 pm
LA Memorial Coliseum
3911 South Figueroa St

PST ART will open to the public with “WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART,” a newly-commissioned monumental artwork by world-renowned artist Cai Guo-Qiang presented at the iconic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Composed of daytime fireworks—a signature form of Cai’s art that uses organic, sustainable pigments and dyes rather than traditional pyrotechnics—and conceived and choreographed by the artist in collaboration with his custom AI model cAI™, the work will mark the first event of its kind in US history.
 

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Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

September 10, 2024–February 23, 2025
Getty Center, Research Institute

Part of this year’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide opening September at locations across Southern California, this exhibition tells the unique story of a mid twentieth century collaboration between artists and engineers. In 1966 American avant-garde artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman teamed up with Bell Labs engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer to form a non-profit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.’s events integrated art, theater, multi-sensory environments, and groundbreaking technology. The group’s pioneering efforts to facilitate communication and collaboration pushed its programs beyond the art world, laying the path for new technological innovations.
 

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unaulutu: Pebbles in the Sand

The Getty houses an impressive collection of artists’ books that blur the line between traditional books and contemporary works of art. One of the most special is unaulutu. It embodies the limitless possibilities of what a book can be: a portable, sensory exhibition capable of overcoming boundaries of space and time.
 

The title is a word from the Karaja, a central-Brazilian Indigenous tribe. It translates to “pebbles in the sand,” a phrase meant to inspire the reader to look closely at the world and recognize its beauty.

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Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

Edited by Nancy Perloff and Michelle Kuo

In 1966, Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to form a nonprofit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
 

E.A.T.’s debut event, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, integrated art, theater, and groundbreaking technology in a series of performances. Sensing the Future tells the story of collaborations between artists and engineers and how they led to new installations and technology-based artworks.

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USC Roski Talks Fall 2024

Free and open to the public
Unless stated otherwise, all Roski Talks will take place at 7 pm at the USC Roski Graduate Building, located at 1262 Palmetto Street
 

The USC Roski School of Art and Design is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated Roski Talks lecture series for Fall 2024. This engaging series, known for its dynamic presentations and vibrant discussions, will kick off on September 10 and continue through December 3, bringing together leading visual artists, design innovators, scholars, and other influential figures.

• September 10: Naima Keith (curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
• September 17: Nadya Tolokonnikova (founder of Pussy Riot) in conversation with Suzanne Lacy and Jennifer West (artists, Professors at USC Roski School of Art and Design), USC Wong Auditorium (USC Campus, Harris Hall 101), 823-29 Exposition Boulevard, Room 100
• September 24: Omnivore (designers) and Thick Press (publisher)
• October 2: Rose B. Simpson (artist), Ahmanson Auditorium, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Ave.

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Weaving Community: UCLA SNF Hellenic Center’s Work in Greece and Los Angeles

Sunday, September 29, 2024, 2-4 pm
Huffington Center at Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral
1324 S. Normandie Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90006

Professor Sharon Gerstel, director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center and George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies discuss the work of the Center in Los Angeles and Greece, focusing on a large-scale, multi-year project about weaving in the village of Geraki, Lakonia. The event includes a lecture, a weaving demo, and a savory bite to eat. Accompanying this event will be an exhibition of family heirlooms by the Greek Heritage Society.

This project forms the basis of an upcoming exhibition at the Benaki Museum and a comprehensive catalog in both Greek and English. Mrs. Chrysoula Stamatopoulou, lead weaving instructor in Geraki, will discuss the village’s weaving tradition which began in the ancient period and is still active today, and will demonstrate weaving on the vertical loom for attendees.

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Each June marks a brief, but important event at the GRI, on the summer solstice, when a ray of sun pierces through the center of our circular building and shines into the earth excavated below our foundation. Designed by the artist Andy Goldsworthy as the centerpiece of this structure, the installation provides a pivotal orientation point for the GRI, along with a serene, yet fleeting moment of brilliant illumination and alignment.
– Mary Miller, Director of the Getty Research Institute
 

This photograph taken by Bahareh Kheyrkhah, graduate intern at the Getty Conservation Institute, features a view of the oculus in the Research Institute’s Library during the summer solstice on June 21, 2024.
 

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