The Fulcrum Festival invites artists and scientists to think and create together around a common theme. Their collaborations culminate in a series of public exhibitions, performances, lectures, screenings, conversations, and workshops in venues across greater Los Angeles.
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Fulcrum Festival 2024: Waves Upon Waves
Waves Upon Waves coincides with Getty-led initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, and offers audiences immersive explorations of vibrations – musical, gravitational, seismic, optical, sensing, among others – fundamental to understanding human perception and experience and highlighting the shifting nature of reality.
Past
2022 Fulcrum Festival: Deep Ocean/Deep Space
Fulcrum Arts is pleased to present Deep Ocean/Deep Space, a regional celebration across Greater Los Angeles that foregrounds the union of art and science as a powerful engine of contemporary culture. Featuring a robust program of exhibitions, performances, lectures, screenings, and workshops presented by over a dozen partner organizations, Deep Ocean/Deep Space provides public opportunities for discovering the fascinations…
Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe
Fulcrum Arts, the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter, and Pitzer College Art Galleries will present the symposium, Free Radicals: On the Provocations of Awe, a program of Fulcrum Arts’ AxS (art + science) initiative, and LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), Leonardo/ISAST’s international program of gatherings that brings artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. To “stand in awe” is…
A×S Festival 2018: City as Wunderkammer
Fulcrum Arts presents the 2018 A×S Festival, a regional celebration of art and science, based in Pasadena and surrounding communities. While often described as occupying opposite ends of the spectrum, art and science are instead understood to be powerful engines of contemporary culture. As a thematic pivoting point, A×S provides opportunities for discovering the fascinations,…
Free Radicals: Evolving Perspectives on the Convergence of Art & Science
Fulcrum Arts and the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter College of Design will present the symposium, Free Radicals: Evolving Perspectives on the Convergence of Art & Science, the newest program of Fulcrum Arts’ AxS (art + science) Initiatives. Free Radicals will present a robust, two-day program of artist talks, performances, and presentations. Rather than focus on one…
A×S Festival 2014: Curiosity
AxS [ak-sis] is a two-week citywide festival produced by the Fulcrum Arts that explores the nexus of artistic and scientific inquiry, promoting experimentation and cross-fertilization between these disciplines. It is our conviction that the interplay between human curiosity, scientific investigation and artistic risk-taking reflects a cultural zeitgeist that not only defines Pasadena as the City…
A×S Festival 2011: Fire and Water
AxS Festival 2011 celebrates Pasadena’s remarkable heritage as “The City of Art + Science.” Pasadena’s world-renowned arts and science institutions are uniquely intertwined — like strands of DNA — and the AxS Festival is designed to showcase this rare alchemy with two weeks of art, dance, music, theater, performance and provocative conversation. AxS Festival 2011 explores the…