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06/05/2026

Join us to celebrate the closing of 🌊 ‘Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI’ 🌊 with an evening of poetry, movement, and collective reflection.

🗓 Thursday, May 7 | 6–8 PM
📍 Switzerland at Pier 17 in San Francisco
🔗 Sign up: https://luma.com/nvwama47

✨ Poet Kim Shuck, former San Francisco Poet Laureate, shares a powerful work tracing personal and collective journeys across waterways—exploring migration, identity, and the deep entanglement of human and river histories.

🌀Multidisciplinary movement artist and choreographer Babatunji along with dance artist Charmaine activates Ana Teresa Fernández’ artwork 🌊 ‘On the Horizon, 🌊 in a dynamic dance performance engaging water, climate, and embodied expression.
Together, these performances invite us to experience water not only as a resource, but as a living force shaping memory, movement, and meaning.

Presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco and curated by Amy Kisch, ‘Hidden Currencies’ is on view through May 10 ✨ featuring artists Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Céline Ducret, Ana Teresa Fernández, Greg Niemeyer, and Annelia Norris (pue leek la'). City Studio (Amy Berk + Chris Treggiari), Ani Moskovyan, Samuel Wildmann, Tania Claudia Castillo, Candice Mays, and Juana Perfecta.

We are grateful for the support of Presence Switzerland and EAWAG who have made teh exhibition and programming series possible.

Celebrate the closing of Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI with an evening of poetry and performance. Poet Kim Shuck, former San Francisco Poet…

02/05/2026

We're heading into the final week of 'Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI' at Pier 17 in San Francisco. If you haven't made it there yet, come by Sat.-Sun. 11am-4pm or M-F 10am-5pm through 5/10.

✨ The central exhibition features multidisciplinary works by Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Céline Ducret, Ana Teresa Fernández, Greg Niemeyer, and Annelia Norris (pue leek la') — with more artists in the experiential hub, including City Studio (Amy Berk + Chris Treggiari), Ani Moskovyan, Samuel Wildmann, Tania Claudia Castillo, Candice Mays, and Juana Perfecta.

There are two more events presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco that will close out the programming series, the first of which is THIS Tuesday.

🎥💧 Documentary Preview + Conversation: Water Stewardship & Indigenous Knowledge

🗓 Tuesday, May 5 | 6–8 PM
📍 Switzerland at Pier 17 in San Francisco
🔗 Sign up: https://luma.com/at7amlno

What does it mean to truly care for water—not just manage it, but relate to it as a living part of our shared world?

Join us for a special evening featuring a short preview of Swiftwater Films’ ‘Undamming Klamath’ documenting the historic 2024 removal of hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River—the largest dam removal project in U.S. history. The film, by Shane Anderson, traces what comes after: salmon returning, ecosystems healing, and communities reconnecting with a restored river through decades of collaboration.

The screening will be followed by a conversation on water stewardship in a time of climate urgency, centering Indigenous knowledge and practices that emphasize reciprocity, responsibility, and long-term care. Together, panelists from across disciplines will explore how these perspectives can inform more just and sustainable water futures.

🎤 Featuring Kara Briggs, Romain Maendly, Felicia Marcus, and Annelia Norris (pue-leek-la)
🎙 Moderated by Mary Miller

Presented in partnership with the Stanford Doerr School Sustainability Accelerator and made possible with the support of Presence Switzerland and EAWAG.

Presented as part of Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI. What does it mean to truly care for water — not just manage it, but treat it as a…

29/04/2026

💧 Water & AI: Governance, Innovation, and Justice 💧

Join us tomorrow night for a timely conversation presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, exploring how emerging technologies are reshaping the future of water.

🗓 Thursday, April 30 | 6–8 PM PDT
📍 Switzerland at Pier 17 in San Francisco
🔗 Sign up: https://luma.com/1hzt9cyg

As AI and data-driven systems increasingly influence how water is allocated, treated, and managed, what does this mean for equity, transparency, and environmental stewardship? From cities and agriculture to ecosystems and data centers, this panel brings together perspectives from Switzerland and the U.S. to examine both the risks and possibilities of these rapidly evolving systems.

🎤 Featuring Tadesse Kebebew, Meagan Mauter, Sheena Conforti, and Suzanne Pierre
🎙 Moderated by Greg Niemeyer

Part of the exhibition ‘Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI’ curated by Amy Kisch — on view through May 10 — this conversation invites us to consider how innovation can support more just and sustainable water futures. ✨ Presented in partnership with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Accelerator.

The exhibition features artists Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Céline Ducret, Ana Teresa Fernández, Greg Niemeyer, and Annelia Norris (pue leek la'), City Studio (Amy Berk + Chris Treggiari), Ani Moskovyan, Samuel Wildmann, Tania Claudia Castillo, Candice Mays, and Juana Perfecta.

Made possible with the support of Presence Switzerland and EAWAG.

Presented as part of Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI. Explore how emerging technologies are reshaping how water is allocated, treated, and…

18/04/2026

Join us for the launch of Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI 💧🤖

Featuring multimedia artist Angy He, who creates live-coded music and visual performances using real-time water data. She treats technology not only as a tool, but as a narrative medium — transforming computation into immersive human-centered experiences that explore how emerging technologies shape social relations, power, and intimacy.

🗓️ April 21 (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍Pier 17
🔗 sign up: https://luma.com/trt5zjlk

02/04/2026

🌊 Excited to share this one!

'Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI' opens April 18, kicking of SF Climate Week at Pier 17 in San Francisco.

Presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, this interdisciplinary exhibition runs through May 10, bringing together six artists whose practices span photography, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and data art: Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Céline Ducret, Annelia Norris (pue leek la'), Ana Teresa Fernández, and Greg Niemeyer — to explore the future of water stewardship at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge, diplomacy, and AI.

From dam debris pulled from the newly freed Klamath River to live hydrological data from Swiss glaciers to a meditation on how much water it takes to generate an AI video of water, the work asks how we might harness our collective intelligence to meet our responsibilities as stewards of the water systems that sustain all life — and what wisdom, old and new, we will need to do so.

Free public programming runs throughout: performances, conversations, film screenings, and community activations — including an opening Bucket Brigade on April 18, Community Day on April 26, and conversations on Water + AI and Water Stewardship + Indigenous Knowledge.

All events are free and open to the public. 🙌

👉 Check it out at Pier 17, San Francisco.



Read the Press Release: https://mailchi.mp/akart/apharvwdnq-15938890?e=f576f8ccd5

31/12/2025

🌊 Meet Alson Kelen: a Marshallese master navigator whose deep ancestral knowledge of the ocean is now part of groundbreaking research bridging tradition and science.�
For thousands of years, Marshallese navigators read the sea not by compass or GPS, but through the subtle feel of swells, winds, and waves — a skill called wave-piloting that allows them to find distant atolls across vast blue horizons.

This fall, scientists teamed up with Alson and other Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands to explore not just how this navigation works, but what it reveals about the human brain and spatial awareness. Using tools like mobile eye-tracking and motion capture on the open ocean, the research aims to decode the neurological foundations of this ancient wayfinding tradition.

Alson isn’t just part of the research — he’s a cultural keeper, guiding youth through Waan Aelon in Majel, a canoe building and sailing school dedicated to passing these skills forward.

In Our Life Is Here (Kõmij Mour Ijin), a forthcoming exhibition at UC Berkeley, curated by Svea Lin Soll and myself Amy K. , his presence underscores a central theme: the resilience and relevance of Marshallese knowledge in a changing world — connecting ancestral wisdom, climate, memory, and the future of human cognition. ourlifeishere.org

🔗 Link to read how science and culture meet in this extraordinary journey.

nytimes.com/2025/11/18/science/neuroscience-brain-navigation-marshall-islands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain.