September 15, 2024
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

A spectacular realization of Art & Science Collide, PST ART will open to the public with WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART, a monumental artwork by world-renowned artist CAI Guo-Qiang (ACC 1995, 2006, 2012; JDR 3rd 2021) and his custom AI model cAI™ (pronounced AI Cai), newly commissioned by Getty. Presented by Getty in collaboration with the University of Southern California, WE ARE will take place at the iconic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on September 15.

A unique experience for only 5,000 guests on the field of the LA Coliseum, this is a limited capacity program.

Composed of "daytime fireworks"—a signature form of Cai’s art that uses organic, sustainable pigments and dyes rather than traditional pyrotechnics—WE ARE will mark the first expansive daytime firework event featuring a drone formation equipped with pyrotechnic products in U.S. history.

WE ARE will feature nearly ten thousand twinkling mini firework shells installed throughout the seating bowl of the Coliseum, custom-developed daytime fireworks, and choreographed drones carrying pyrotechnic products, which will transform the Coliseum, illuminating the skies above downtown LA. The result is a visual story full of mystery and wonder, igniting the sky with images that showcase the relationship between humanity and AI suggests a present-day parallel to the myth of Prometheus’s theft of fire from the gods, with AI’s reduced dimensionality seeming to reveal a “heavenly secret."

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