Hypaenated Workshop | Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty
DaTA Lab’s graphic rendering of Cesar & Lois’s artwork Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado) (2024) with planetary respiration diagram. Courtesy of Lucy HG Solomon.
Cesar & Lois, Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Cesar & Lois, Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado) (detail), 2024. Courtesy of the artists. Commissioned by the Beall Center for Art + Technology’s Black Box Projects residency program.
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The UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology is pleased to host a workshop with Getty PST resident artist Lucy HG Solomon of Cesar & Lois in conjunction with the exhibition Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty, presented in partnership with Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
Please join art collective Cesar & Lois on Saturday, November 2 from 2-4pm in exploring their latest project, Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado), a living sculpture incorporating specimens from California ecosystems. Visitors will discover the magic of photosynthesis, breathe with microorganisms, and create art with living materials.
STEAM Ambassadors from CSUSM will guide guests through a series of art and science activities, including peering at fungi through microscopes; observing photosynthesis in real time; creating mini plant lights; and making symbiotic collages with local plant species.
The Hyphaenated Workshop is free and may be enjoyed by visitors of all ages.
Guests are invited to experience Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado) outside of the workshop by visiting Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty, on view at the Beall Center for Art + Technology through December 14, 2024. The gallery is open from 12-6pm, Tuesday-Saturday. Admission is free. Learn more at beallcenter.uci.edu/futuretense.
Behind the Science:
Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado) investigates ecological relationships at different scales — as interspecies exchanges and as part of planetary respiration. The artwork was produced in conversation with Kathleen Treseder and researchers at the UC Irvine Treseder Lab, which studies fungi’s role in ecosystems and global change. Live specimens included in the artwork were sourced from the mountain ecology surrounding Escondido, California. The project asks, if our technology were modeled from nature, might we begin to think of ourselves as nodes within a community of organisms?
“The whole planet is connected, and the behavior of one entity can dramatically affect living beings in other parts of the world. If you spend enough time with the sculpture, you will see on its screen how the CO2 you are breathing is changing the behavior and signaling of the microorganisms.” - Cesar & Lois
Event Date:
November 2, 2024 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Event Location:
Beall Center for Art + Technology and University Art Gallery 712 Arts Plaza Irvine, CA 92697-2775 949-824-6206 beallcenter@uci.edu
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