We live in the age of Big Data: extremely large data sets collected from multiple sources by scientists, businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and others.
Seeing the Unseeable: Intersections in Data, Science, Art, and Design Areas of research will include how the history of agriculture in the American West has always benefited from the knowledge of Indigenous peoples and diverse immigrant farmworker communities. The exhibition will look at the ways art and science can work together to encourage sustainable food and shelter using traditional environmental management techniques that stand in contrast to the industrialized processes that dominate corporate farming. Taking inspiration from the seed, as one of the smallest but most powerful mechanisms for change, From the Ground Up will present contemporary art concerned with the preservation of ancient plant knowledge, modern botanical science, and related sociopolitical issues. What happens when populations that depend on international supply chains for basic needs are systemically cut off from food production? What happens when power grids fail, and reservoirs dry up? For decades, artists, writers, and scientists have imagined the consequences of severe disruptions such as these to the economy and the environment. The exhibition will challenge widely held perceptions of Cyberpunk as being predominantly a white, male, and heteronormative subgenre in the Western world by including contributions of women, LGBTQ+ communities, and filmmakers of color from Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.įrom the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments Through storyboards, costumes, and immersive digital components, The Rise of Cyberpunk will document Cyberpunk's history and lasting influence on international film, from the 1980s to the present day, and examine the movement's connections to technological developments of the era. In the 1980s and 1990s, landmark films such as Blade Runner (USA, 1982), Akira (Japan, 1988), and The Matrix (USA, 1999) gave a visual landscape to Cyberpunk's dystopian themes of social alienation, totalitarianism, and urban decay. Juxtaposing scientific advances in automation, computing, and robotics with social disorder, Cyberpunk celebrated the "hacker culture" mentality of challenging and defeating machines. The Rise of Cyberpunk and Digital DystopiasĬyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre that emerged from the New Wave science fiction literature movement of the 1960s and 1970s, was inspired by a growing fascination with the science of human-computer interaction.
An experiential, multi-screen "kaleidoscope" planned for the exhibition will present historical film clips calibrated to their original colors by a team of preservation specialists and juxtapose them with monochrome imagery from contemporary films such as The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Moonlight (2016), while a second gallery will examine the history of these colors and the technologies that enabled their creation on screen. Color in Motion will also explore the underrecognized contributions of women as technicians and the development of early industrial color processes, some familiar and some now lost to history. Researchers will draw on recent insights from psychology, neurobiology, and optical engineering to explore how filmgoers perceive color. Color in Motion will investigate the science, technology, and psychology behind filmmakers' experiments with color, focusing on two key moments of color innovation: the Silent Era and the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (for two exhibitions)Ĭolor in Motion: Experimental Technologies and Cinemaįrom tinted and toned silent films to modern Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI), color has played an essential role in creating cinematic landscapes and stories.