Tiffany Shlain & Ken Goldberg
Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology:
Trees, Time & Technology
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
On the occasion of the new and expanded exhibition Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time and Technology at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art SF. The artists gratefully acknowledge Executive Director and Chief Curator Kate Eilertsen; Curator of Exhibitions and Programs Twyla Ruby; Collection and Exhibitions Manager Katie Kime; Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide Skirball guest curator Selma Holo and associate curator Vicki Phung Smith; Jessie Kornberg,
President and CEO of the Skirball Cultural Center; Skirball Museum Director Sheri Bernstein, Exhibitions Manager Michele Urton, and Vice President of Advancement Jocelyn Tetel; Joan Weinstein from the Getty Museum and the whole PST ART team. di Rosa SF’s expanded Ancient Wisdom exhibition received generous support from Piraye Yurttas Beim, PhD of Eve’s Ark and Dr. Nancy O’Reilly of Women Connect4Good. With thanks for support for the original exhibition for Getty PST ART, supported by J. Paul Getty Trust and Laurie Raskin and the Raskin Family Foundation in memory of Jay Raskin.
The artists would like to thank their family members Ann & Melvin Goldberg, Dr. Leonard Shlain, Carole Lewis PhD, Odessa Goldberg & Blooma Goldberg, Kimberly Brooks, Dr. Jordan Shlain, Adele Goldberg PhD, and Dr. Elena Man, key advisors Catharine Clark, Nancy Hoffman, Tina Sharkey, Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Jock McDonald, Lily Kanter, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, Maya Draisin, Amy & Gil Gershoni, Amy Critchett, Melissa Saxe Blaustein, Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Randy Colosky, Alan Eyzaguirre, Tanya Selvaratnam, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Eric Lammerding, Sawyer Steele, and Debbie Millman.
The artists would also like to thank the scholars and experts who consulted on the timelines; researcher and editor Jenny Traig; designer Nicole Lanzotti; Aakansha Tuteja for stenciling and additional pyrography; Evan Shively, Carly Borman, Karl Stark, and Landon Davoren for their salvaged wood support; Ken’s UC Berkeley students Josh Zhang, Cael Magner, Kabir Shah, Hudson Kim and Arnav Vipul Dalal, who helped with our AI artworks; animator Una Lorenzen; Wendy Norris and Abby Margulies for communications; and everyone who helped make this exhibition possible.
Catalog design by Paul Wehby
Photography by Stefanie Atkinson Schwartz
Exhibition producer, Lauren Schiller
Advisors who have reviewed the text and given feedback for
DendroJudaeology:A Timeline of the Jewish People:
Deena Aranoff, director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and senior lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies
Melissa Blaustein, founder and CEO of Allied for Startups; associate director of Communications, Acumen; former mayor of Sausalito
Aaron Davidman, playwright, Wrestling Jerusalem
Nathaniel Deutsch, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies; director of the Center for Jewish Studies and director of the Humanities Institute
Steven Dinkelspiel, board co-president, The J
Marc Engel, author
Ann Goldberg, retired teacher and Jewish mother to Ken
Odessa Goldberg, Yale University senior, Cognitive Science
Dr. Erik Greenberg, public historian and museum professional
Tye Gregory, CEO, Jewish Community Relations Council
Rachel Havrelock, professor of English, University of Illinois Chicago
Joshua Holo, vice president of Academic Resources; associate professor of Jewish History. Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion
Selma Holo, curator
Deb Kass, artist
Ethan Katz, associate professor of History and Jewish Studies; director, Center for Jewish Studies; Chair, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Jewish Life & Campus Climate, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Krasny, professor of English Literature, San Francisco State University; host, Gray Matter
Elissa Strauss, author and artistic director of LABA
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Levi, Lab/Shul
Libby Lenkinski, vice president for public engagement at the New Israel Fund
Robert Mickey, professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Rabbi Sydney Mintz, Congregation Emanu-el
Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Executive Director of UC Berkeley Hillel
Rabbi Kendell Pinkney, rabbinic educator for Reboot and founding executive artistic director of The Workshop
Paula Pretlow, chair and trustee, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Howard Rheingold, author
Douglas Rushkoff, author and research fellow of the Institute for the Future, founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics, CUNY/Queens
Wendy Sachs, filmmaker
Lauren Schiller, author and producer
Rabbi Beau Shapiro, Skirball
Tina Sharkey, Lecturer, Business of Innovations, University of Southern California
​​Carolina Simon, executive director, Zachor Shoah Inc.
Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund
Krista Tippett, host, On Being
Jenny Wolfe, JCRC Bay Area Immediate Past President
Tiffany Shlain
Ken Goldberg
