That was then. This is now: PostNatural Nature
Exhibition on view February 7 through April 28, 2019
Exhibition preview and discussion: Thursday, February 7, 2019
5:30 p.m.: Preview and Reception
6:30 to 7:30 p.m.: Discussion and Q&A
7:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Additional Exhibition Viewing

ADMISSION:
Exhibition Preview and Discussion on Thursday, February 7, 2019
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at http://nhm.org/nhmlatalks

Exhibition Viewing, February 8 through April 28, 2019
Included with admission to the Natural History Museum.
To purchase tickets online, visit http://nhm.org.
$15 general
$12 senior (ages 62+), youth (ages 13-17), and student (with school ID)
$7 child (ages 3-12)
Free for USC students, staff, and faculty with valid USC ID

DESCRIPTION:
Alcoholic rats, ribless mice, and genetically modified mosquitoes are among the specimens being presented by artist Richard Pell and the Center for PostNatural History in the upcoming exhibition That was then. This is now at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park. Explore 10,000 years of human-guided evolution in a fascinating view of items from the collections of the Natural History Museum and the Center for PostNatural History. Each object in That was then. This is now is simultaneously a piece of natural history and a post-natural artifact of human culture that embodies human desire, hunger, power, and fear.

On Thursday, February 7, join us for a viewing of the exhibition and reflect on the profound questions raised by the interplay between culture, nature, biotechnology,  art, and science in a dynamic discussion with Richard Pell, Director of the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh; Matt Dean, Associate Professor of Molecular and Computational Biology at USC; and Amy Gusick, Associate Curator for Archaeology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Additional Links:
Center for PostNatural History | Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
American Scientist: “Bringing Postnatural History into View”
Hyperallergic: “A Museum for Our Postnatural Age”
Science Friday: “Where ‘Postnatural’ Organisms Find a Home” (Audio and Video)
Vice: “This Museum Documents All the Ways Man has Messed with Nature”
WNYC: “It’s Only Post-Natural” (Audio)

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Karen Liebowitz (Art and Design) with contributions from Matt Dean (Biological Sciences), in partnership with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Center for PostNatural History. Co-sponsored by the USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study and The Bridge Art + Science Alliance (BASA).