Background image: Sakman Chamorro, San Diego. From "Our Sakman Story" workshop booklet, Mario Borja, http://www.guampedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Mario-Borja.pdf
“The UCSD Institute of Arts and Humanities is taking the spirit of collaboration a step further with two on-campus organizations — the Geisel Library and the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography — working together to present a series of events over the coming years. The series, titled ‘Oceanic Art and Science: Navigating the Pacific,’ will center on ‘the visual and sensory techniques, past and present, used to see, measure and imagine the oceans.’”
“‘Of course, to understand our planet, it really depends on how we observe the planet,’ says Dr. Nan Renner, the Birch Aquarium’s senior director of Learning Design and Innovation. ‘Scientists and artists both engage in how we represent and make meaning from those observations. When science and art work together, we’ve seen time and time again, they expand each other’s perceptual skills and power of imagination.’” —San Diego Union Tribune
“As with the previous Pacific Standard Time initiatives, the participating organizations constitute a community of institutions throughout Southern California, diverse in profile but joined by a common purpose. Participants funded in the research and planning stage include civic institutions such as LACMA and the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, academic institutions including California Institute of Technology and Southern California Institute of Architecture, university-affiliated museums and galleries such as the Hammer and the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside, organizations working at the convergence of contemporary art and science including Fathomers and Fulcrum Arts, and museums focused on particular fields of the arts, such as the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. As in earlier editions of Pacific Standard Time, the participating institutions cluster in and around Los Angeles but are spread as far south as San Diego and as far north as Santa Barbara.” —Getty Research Foundation
“The grant recipient projects sound both far reaching and specific to our time, exploring sci-fi-like ideas about artificial intelligence, space exploration and biomedical technologies along with more urgent issues such as social justice, climate crises and global health and medicine”—Los Angeles Times
