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These projects include temporary exhibitions as well as pieces that remain part of the Exploratorium's permanent exhibit collection. |
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A Trip Down Market Street (2005) |
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On September 24, 2005, the city of San Francisco celebrated one hundred years of city life at A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005. Located across from the San Francisco Ferry Building, the evening showcased film pioneer Jack Kuttner's classic A Trip Down Market Street 1905 , along with a new film of the City's vibrant central artery by Melinda Stone and Sprague Anderson (original music by Beth Custer Ensemble) and additional works by Bay Area filmmakers. |
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Move 36 (2004)
by Eduardo Kac |
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In conjunction with the Exploratorium's Traits of Life exhibit collection, artist Eduardo Kac created Move 36, a piece which explored the rapidly advancing capabilities of nonliving entities and their impact and commentary on what it means to be human. The title of Move 36 referred to the dramatic 1997 move made by IBM computer Deep Blue against world chess champion Gary Kasparov—a chess match described by the artist as “the best player that ever lived against the best player that never lived.” |
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Telesculpture 2003
by Dan Collins
 Dan Collins' residency, entitled Telesculpture 2003, explored the interface between the physical and the virtual. Using telecommunication tools, computerized rapid prototyping, and custom hardware and software, 3-D models transmitted via the Internet were translated into tangible sculptures. A virtual exhibition of work created at the Exploratorium and at the Prism Lab was held at Arizona State University. |
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Jarred In (2003)
by Philip Ross |
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As part of the Exploratorium's Traits of Life exhibit collection, Philip Ross created a large-scale hydroponics sculpture that commented on the relationship between nature and technology. |
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Code Blue at the Genome Zoo (2003)
by Barbara Damashek |
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In conjunction with Traits of Life, playwright/director Barbara Damashek created Code Blue at the Genome Zoo, a play that explored the realm of code mapping and offered fascinating insights into genetics. |
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Tiger Skin and Human Portrait in Grass (2003)
by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey |
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British artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey created two installations for the Traits of Life exhibit collection. Both installations explored the use of grass as a photographic medium. |
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The Folkall Project (2003)
by Eto Otitigbe |
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In conjunction with the Seeing exhibit collection, Eto Otitigbe created an interactive sculpture that brought attention to the global need for increased donations of eyeglasses. |
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Dreaming Backwards: A Time Travel Mystery (1997, 1999)
by Rhodessa Jones, Diane Ferlatte, and Anita Jones |
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As part of the Exploratorium's explorations of Memory, these three storytellers joined forces to create an original performance that used dance, music, and text to educate and entertain families about the physiology of the brain and the meaning of memory. |
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The Art and Light of Body Movement (1997)
by Seth and Noah Riskin |
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As part of Sport!, a temporary exhibition exploring the physics of athletic competition, Seth and Noah Riskin, twin gymnasts and light artists, created performances with mirrored costumes and light sources attached to their bodies. These performances illuminated the grace and movement of the human body and described the confines of space. |
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Fireorgan (1996)
by Trimpin |
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As part of What About AIDS?, a special exhibition that explored the ramifications of the AIDS epidemic, Trimpin designed a contemplative installation consisting of four sculptures that used flames and glass pipes to create organlike sounds. |
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The Thirty-Nine Steps (1996)
by John Sandborn |
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During this digital interactive storytelling installation, visitors could redirect the middles and endings of the stories, changing the outcomes and becoming storytellers themselves. |
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Love Tapes (1993)
by Wendy Clarke |
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As part of the exhibition Psychology: Understanding Ourselves, Understanding Others, Wendy Clarke's installation allowed visitors to record their thoughts about love. In a private room, visitors could listen to tapes, create tapes of their own, and add those tapes to a collection of personal stories. |
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Meanderings (1993)
by Michael Brown |
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In this exhibit, water dripping down a large sheet of glass creates beautiful, meandering patterns that combine and separate in moving streams. Visitors can vary the incline of the glass and watch the changing patterns and the play of light and shadow reflected by the moving water. |
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Well of Lights (1992)
by Toshio Iwai |
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Here, layers of moving images were generated by a combination of computers, strobing video projections, and spinning transparent disks. An extension of early nineteenth-century moving-image technology, this piece considered different ways objects can appear to be moving in space. |
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Vibrating Pin Screen (1991)
by Ward Fleming |
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This piece consists of a vibrating table covered by a perforated metal screen with 97 tiny openings per square inch. Each perforation is filled with a highly reflective pin, which swings like a tiny pendulum when the sculpture is in motion. As the pins move, vibrating in unison through sequentially varying patterns, they create a display that look like a digitization of reflections on water. |
