Exhibition
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
12 Sep 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Address
- 631 West 2nd Street
- Los Angeles
California - CA 90012
- United States
In 1967, poet Richard Brautigan imagined a coming future, “where mammals and computers / live together in mutually / programming harmony.”
About
The resulting proliferation of these technologies has now radically altered every area of life. Borrowing its title from Brautigan’s poem, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time—the impact of artificial intelligence—by proposing alternative directions for its future and how it changes the relationship between the human and non-human. Presenting a broad range of art forms, including visual art and performance, this exploration offers alternatives rooted in indigenous belief systems, and feminist, queer, and decolonial imaginaries. Neither the utopia imagined by Brautigan nor the dystopia feared today, the alternative approaches proposed by artists can inform the next generation of AI, grounded in diverse conceptions of technology, cognition, and life. Along with the exhibition, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace consists of a performance program and accompanying publication.
Nora Al-Badri, Minne Atairu, Stephanie Dinkins, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Interspecifics, Kite, Charmaine Poh, Sarah Rosalena, Kira Xonorika
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is among more than 60 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART. Returning in September 2024 with its latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, this landmark regional event explores the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art
The exhibition is funded in part with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Performance Series
Back to Back Theatre
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
September 26-28, 2024
Kite, Interspecifics
November 2, 2024
Annie Dorsen
January 24-25, 2025
Screening
Manthia Diawara
September 16, 2024
Special Event
rafa esparza, MUXX, among others
Live Night: Cruising Bodies, Spirits, and Machines
Co-Presented by REDCAT and CAP UCLA
United Artists Theater, DTLA
December 7, 2024
