Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain, still from Speculation, Like Nature, Abhors a Vacuum, 2024
In the Media Room, the gallery presents Speculation, Like Nature, Abhors a Vacuum (LA Version) (2024), a collaborative video by gallery artist Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain. Inspired by Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles archive (1965–present), this aerial video offers an artistic interpretation of tree canopy coverage on four major LA boulevards. Whereas Ruscha focused on urban architecture, Goldberg and Shlain use AI tools and Google’s Auto Arborist Dataset to focus on urban treescapes, panning down Hollywood, Sunset, Manchester, and Whittier Boulevards to contrast their differences.
The pairing of Goldberg and Shlain’s work with Teraoka is inspired by the roots of Teraoka’s practice in the pop and conceptual movements in Los Angeles of the 1970s and 1980s characterized by artists like Ed Ruscha. The video was also selected for its focus on the environment, and economic disparities. Teraoka also reflects on the environment. and issues in his work as far back at the series New Views of Mount Fuji, which he realized in the 1970s in Los Angeles.
The pairing of Goldberg and Shlain’s work with Teraoka is inspired by the roots of Teraoka’s practice in the pop and conceptual movements in Los Angeles of the 1970s and 1980s characterized by artists like Ed Ruscha. The video was also selected for its focus on the environment, and economic disparities. Teraoka also reflects on the environment. and issues in his work as far back at the series New Views of Mount Fuji, which he realized in the 1970s in Los Angeles.
