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Liam Young's 'Views of Planet City' will highlight SCI-Arc's exhibition programming as part of Pacific Standard Time this fall

2024-06-18T12:32:00-04:00

This fall at SCI-Arc, the school’s graduate Fiction and Entertainment program director Liam Young will present Views of Planet City as part of the regional PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition organized by The Getty Museum.

Previously: 'AI Is a Dangerous Distraction From the Pressing Issues Defining Our Generation'; A Conversation with Liam Young

Young is known for his fictional alternative proposal of the same name that posits a future in which humanity has been resettled to one singular megacity benefiting the natural systems that keep the blue planet healthy while reversing centuries of colonialization through a converse process called ‘rewilding.’

Image: Damjan Jovanovic/courtesy of SCI-Arc

"As an imaginary world, Planet City is continually being inhabited, explored, and fleshed out across multiple mediums and platforms. It was originally conceived of as a film, a mix of live-action costumes and actors and CGI backgrounds but has now evolved as a VR experience, a book, and a ...

SCI-Arc, UCLA, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and ArtCenter among recipients of the Pacific Standard Time 2040 grant awards

2021-02-01T16:39:00-05:00

In collaboration with the Getty, Pacific Standard Time (PST) recognizes exhibitions and programs that highlight topics relating to culture, education, visual arts, and science. In its third regional collaboration, the Getty's Pacific Standard Time series thematic overview includes sustainability and environmental justice, indigenous knowledge, technology and futurism, the science and technology of architecture, and more.

Forty-five institutions have been awarded funding totaling $5million. Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin discusses the role art and science will play during this iteration of PST in the following press statement. "We're eager to break that pattern with this new edition of Pacific Standard Time as we collectively explore nothing less than two fundamental modes of understanding the world and the powerful and surprising ways they connect."

Tavares Strachan, Six Thousand Years, 2018. UV ink, pigment, enamel, vinyl,graphite, mylar, spray paint, collage, oil stick, sint...

Stephen Garrett, curator who inaugurated Getty and Hammer museums, has died

2019-12-09T13:22:00-05:00

Garrett was born in Ashtead, England, in 1922. He studied architecture at Trinity College, although his academic pursuits were disrupted by the Second World War, in which he fought for the British Royal Navy. After the war, he completed his studies at Cambridge before opening a private architectural practice in London, where he was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Over a long and lustrous career, Stephen Garrett, played many roles and helped shape a series of architectural contributions in the museum sphere, including lending his expertise as a consulting architect for the Getty Villa project in Malibu, California. He ended up becoming the Getty's first director following J. Paul Getty's death in 1976, and was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the museum's second location in Brentwood. Garrett also led the Long Beach Art Museum and Hammer Museum, among other efforts.

Garrett passed away at age 96 on December 2, 2019.