Mount Wilson Observatory and Carnegies Observatories are proud to collaborate with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Art+Technology Lab and present Standard Candle by Sarah Rosalena, opening in May 2023. Rosalena, with roots in the Wixarika tribe, is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Los Angeles, and will stage her exhibit in the Museum of Photon Technology on the ground floor of the 100-inch telescope dome at Mount Wilson Observatory.
Standard Candle features a series of woven and beaded textiles made using computer code and is based on archival glass plates captured by Mount Wilson’s 100-inch Hooker telescope in the early days of the Observatory. The exhibition is organized around a body of work developed by the artist in response to the labor of female “computers” – women who worked at observatories at the turn of the 20th Century – undertaking the painstaking tasks of graphing data and performing calculations and predictions to advance Western scientific thought and the imaging of space.
EXHIBIT & EVENT INFO:
June 10, June 17/18 (Exhibit will not be open Sunday, June 11). 1:00-5:00pm @ MWO’s Museum of Photon Technology in the 100-inch telescope doom building. FREE (no reservations necessary): https://www.mtwilson.edu/arts-the-observatory/
Image information: Sarah Rosalena, *Standard Candle*, 2021 © Sarah Rosalena, photo © Museum Associates /LACMA, photo credit: Ian Byers-Gamber.
