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." 

According to the Getty Foundation site, "from alchemy to anatomy, and from botanical art to augmented reality, art and science have shared moments of unity, conflict, and mutual insight. The next PST theme connects these moments in the past with the most pressing issues of today. By examining such critical issues as climate change and the future of artificial intelligence, PST will create an opportunity for civic dialogue around the urgent problems of our time."

Below is a preview of recipients for the first round of research grants. The full list of grant recipients and their program details can be found here.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (For two exhibitions)

• Color in Motion: Experimental Technologies and Cinema
• The Rise of Cyberpunk and Digital Dystopias

ArtCenter College of Design

• Seeing the Unseeable: Intersections in Data, Science, Art, and Design

Autry Museum of the American West (For two exhibitions)

• Indigenous Futures, or How to Survive and Thrive After the Apocalypse
• Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West

The Broad

• Joseph Beuys: 7000 Oaks

California African American Museum

• World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project

California Institute of Technology

• Virtual Witnessing: Seeing Caltech Science

Craft Contemporary

• Nature Near: New Materials and Technology for Architecture and Design

Institute of Contemporary Art

• Scientia Sexualis

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

• The Future in Our Past: Visualizing Human Evolution, 1850 to the Present

MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art)

• Olafur Eliasson

SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture)

• Planet City

UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture

• Art and the Internet in LA

UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside

• Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origin of the Pixel-Based Image World

The second round of grant funding will be announced by the Getty at a later date this year. Previous Pacific Standard Time programs included Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.Aand Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.