Premieres Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream with KPBS+
Weaving together stories of artists featured in the Getty’s 2024-25 Southern California art event Pacific Standard Time, the documentary showcases a sampling of the participating arts organizations and scientific institutions throughout the region.
Weaving together stories of artists featured in the Getty’s 2024-25 Southern California art event Pacific Standard Time, the documentary showcases a sampling of the participating arts organizations and scientific institutions throughout the region.
PST ART: Art & Science Collide creates opportunities for civic dialogue around some of the most urgent problems of our time by exploring past and present connections between art and science in a series of exhibitions, public programs, and other resources. Project topics range from climate change and environmental justice to the future of artificial intelligence and alternative medicine.
Watch Clips:
Special Species — an artist collaborative comprised of Jason Chang, Joel Fernando, and Yesenia Prieto — collaborate on a project for the Natural History Museum. Combining piñata-making techniques with the Mexican alebrijes tradition, their work draws attention to overlooked species and crafts, showing how cultural practices and ecological awareness can intersect.
Lauren Bon of Metabolic Studio explores the LA River’s mismanagement and its environmental impact. Using corn as a hyperaccumulator, she transforms a contaminated train yard into fertile land, demonstrating how redirected water and creative interventions can restore soil health, connect urban spaces to the river, and rethink LA’s water use.
Hayv Kahraman, an Iraqi-born artist, explores the interconnectedness of humans and microbes. Using linen and marbling techniques, she highlights how microbial life shapes both our bodies and materials, suggesting that art can reveal connections between the microscopic, the human, and the cosmic, challenging notions of identity and difference.
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Sovereignty Suits reimagine the spacesuit as more than survival gear. Made of clay, steel, and cultural objects, these sculptures become vessels of memory and resilience—time travelers carrying our stories, reminding us that to journey forward, we must take our culture with us.
American Artist reimagines the history of rocket science through the lens of Octavia Butler, blending speculative fiction, Black futurism, and critique of space colonization. The Monophobic Response connects Butler’s Earthseed vision with real rocket tests, centering Black and brown communities in a new narrative of survival, technology, and imagined futures.
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Credits: PST ART is an initiative of Getty with arts institutions across Southern California.
