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The University of California, San Diego is one of 45 Southern California partners joining the next Pacific Standard Time, the region-wide collaboration of exhibitions and programs supported by the Getty Foundation. PST 2024 will explore intersections of art and science. PST projects face  complex challenges, from climate devastation to global pandemics, and from digital surveillance to environmental justice, offering new visions of the past and future. Follow PST Art + Science on Facebook

Ocean Prototype Nights is a series of dialogs, talks, and project demos that highlight projects in development for PST’s 2024 Oceanographic Art and Science: Navigating the Pacific, a group of collaborative research-based explorations in the visual and sensory techniques, past and present, used in oceanographic and Indigenous art and science to see, sound, measure, and imagine life, culture, and politics on and alongside the the Pacific Ocean.

Led by Lisa Cartwright (Institute of Arts and Humanities) and Nan Renner (Birch Aquarium at Scripps) for the University of California, San Diego, a campus that sits on Kumeyaay land, Navigating the Pacific is a network of projects that chart engagement with maps, vessel design, drawings, and instruments historically used by scientists and indigenous communities to navigate the Pacific. Teams of artists, scientists, and humanities scholars are working together over 3 years to reframe Pacific research in the wake of colonial science. Historical and contemporary ways of mapping and displaying the movement and exchange of knowledge in the broader Pacific region across oceanographic and Indigenous science will inform the development of new works in participatory design and action, digital design, drawing, writing, photography, and video. Projects underway are set in the coastal and inland regions of Southern California and on territories impacted by colonial and military science. A research base is the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the largest, oldest, and most significant centers for ocean and Earth science research, and a longtime hub for art-science collaboration. The exhibition will span two sites on the UC San Diego campus in La Jolla. The Geisel Library will showcase new works on paper and historical images and objects from the archives. At the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, new interventions by artists, ethnomusicologists, and filmmakers working with Scripps scientists will illuminate the Birch Aquarium's living collections and serve as prototypes for new models of collaborative critical and interdisciplinary work.