PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Bring your imagination and sense of wonder to campus to explore important new questions and enduring scientific challenges through the creative lens of innovative, immersive exhibits and captivating performances.
Getty's landmark arts event, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, will create opportunities across Southern California to illuminate the profound interdependencies between the sciences and the arts.
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Opening Doors
October–December, 2024
Caltech campus
Caltech Public Programming presents a program of dance, music, and theater complementing the Institute's PST ART exhibition, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020. The program showcases artists whose work engages with both the history of science and cutting-edge scientific research, with post-show talks featuring artists and scientists from the Caltech community and beyond discussing their creative processes.
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Symposia Day
December 14, 2024
Join us for in-depth exploration and conversation at the intersection of art and science in the final weekend of the Getty-initiated PST ART: Art & Science Collide regional event at Caltech. Artists and researchers from the Caltech Archives, JPL, and CaltechLive will each host 90-minute presentations that illuminate and celebrate the many ways in which scientists and artists share in the creative process and innovation, and how their work contributes to the welfare of our communities.
Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020
September 27–December 15, 2024
Caltech Library
Presented by the Caltech Library, Crossing Over features rare books, scientific instruments, molecular models, paintings, drawings, photographs, and films from the Caltech Archives and Special Collections as well as contemporary art installations.
Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination
September 21, 2024–January 4, 2025
Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale
Through a series of art and science collaborations, this exhibit questions how empathy and connectedness can not only reveal new worlds but inspire innovative ways to nurture them.
Earth Data: The Musical
November 1–3, 2024
Caltech campus
A special stage production, presented at Caltech as a campus extension of the Blended Worlds exhibit, Earth Data: The Musical attempts to show the realities of climate scientists and the struggles and joys of conducting their vital research. Directed by Caltech Theater Arts director Brian Brophy, Earth Data: The Musical is a story about coming together to fight for change and survival, standing up for what one believes in, and celebrating science as a human endeavor.
This musical is based, in part, on the work of NASA/JPL climate scientist Kimberley Rain Miner and field research from JPL postdoctoral scholar Bradley Gay. The production includes performances by Albert Jefferson, JPL flight systems engineer; and Armin Kleinboehl, JPL research scientist, among others.
