DATE CHANGE: Evening Premiere of Standard Candle, by Sarah Rosalena

Exhibit

From May 20 - June 18, Mount Wilson Observatory will feature an art installation by Sarah Rosalena in the 100-inch dome. The exhibit, Standard Candle, reexamines labor conducted by female computers at Mount Wilson through Indigenous weaving and beading. These weavings are based on the data sets from the Mount Wilson archival glass plates that recorded starlight collected by some of these women. Sarah Rosalena is a LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant recipient. The exhibit is presented by Mount Wilson in partnership with Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) & Carnegie Sciences/Pasadena.

Event

To celebrate the opening of Sarah Rosalena: Standard Candle, the evening will begin in the Auditorium.  The artist will discuss the exhibition in the context of origin and knowledge through feminist and anti-colonial methodologies. In addition, she will explore connections to computing shown throughout the exhibition of textile and beadwork.

A reception and a night of telescope viewing on the 100-inch will follow.

*Tickets for this event are free, but reservations are required as space is limited.

About the Participants

Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based from Los Angeles.  Her work deconstructs technology with material interventions, creating new narratives for hybrid objects that function between human/nonhuman, ancient/future, handmade/autonomous, beyond power structures rooted in colonialism.  They collapse binaries and borders, creating new epistemologies between Earth and Space.  She is Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media.