Particles and Waves and the Future of Art and Technology

Please join us for our final program related to our exhibition Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990, closing on February 24, 2025. We continue our exploration of art and science with a co-led tour and a discussion on the new generation of artists working in the field.

*Note: your ticket is valid for both programs and includes admission to the museum.

10:00 a.m. | Palm Springs Art Museum

Coffee available for purchase

10:30 a.m. | Palm Springs Art Museum

Art & Science Exhibition Tour

Sharrissa Iqbal co-curator of Particles and Waves, and Dwight Whitaker Biophysicist and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Pomona College will tour the exhibition each offering insights from art and science respectively.

11:30 a.m. | Annenberg Theater

Southern California Art and Science Technology Today

Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika), a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist working between traditional handicraft traditions and emerging technology, will discuss her art practice alongside Sharrissa Iqbal.

Learn more about our speakers:

Throughout her career, Sarah Rosalena Brady has built a reputation for breaking boundaries through her hybrid forms rooted in Indigenous cosmologies, re-interpreted through digital tools and her hand. She combines cutting-edge technologies to blur binaries between high and low tech, human and nonhuman, ancient and future, tradition and progress beyond power structures rooted in colonialism. She is Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media.

Dwight Whitaker is a Professor of Physics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Dwight’s current scientific research focuses on the role aerodynamics play in the dispersal of seeds and spores. More recently Dwight has been exploring the role of optics in art where he has collaborated with Benton Museum Director, Victoria Sancho-Lobis, to create a course investigating how optics technology, emerging in the 16th century, influenced European art of this period. This course was followed by a co-curated exhibition at the Benton Museum of Art in 2022.