EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Miscellaneous: Exploratorium Opening at Pier 15: Emergence (Clip)

Running Time:
00:03:20

As part of the festivities in honor of the Exploratorium's opening at Pier 15, Obscura Digital, internationally recognized creative technology innovators, transformed the historic façade of Pier 15 into a spectacular, interactive odyssey through micro and macro phenomena on multiple time scales.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: May 22, 2013
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: exploratorium, pier 15, opening, obscura digital, projection, architecture, mapping

Exploratorium History: Shaping the Exploratorium (Clip)

Running Time:
00:28:00

In this historical video from 1996, which was originally made for a museum floor installation, we learn about both the Palace of Fine Arts and the roots of the Exploratorium. This piece mixes footage from films in the Exploratorium's collection and interviews with historians, architects, and museum staff.

Project: History of the Exploratorium | Browse All

Date: November 6, 2012
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics, Art, History

Keywords: palace of fine arts, history, 1915, panama pacific exposition, bernard maybeck, architecture, public space, exploratorium, exhibits, exhibit development, art, artists, scientists, frank oppenheimer

Chaco Canyon: Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:59:00

Join the Live@ crew and NASA scientists as we delve into the ancient knowledge of the Chacoans, daily sky watchers who amassed a great knowledge about the movements of the sun. And learn why today's astronomers and solar physicists continue to watch the sun, using modern ground-based observatories and orbiting space telescopes.

Project: Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon | Browse All

Date: December 21, 2004
Format: Expedition
Category: History of Science
Subject(s): Physics, History

Keywords: winter solstice, chaco canyon, ancient observatories, sun, equinox, native americans, eagle dance, alignments, sun dagger, ancient stories, architecture, fajada butte, pueblo bonito

Links:

National Park Service Chaco Canyon Website

Real: 1 M 225K

Windows Media: 659K

Mathematica: David Meckel: An Inside Look at the Eames Office (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:14:27

Founding Dean of the Architecture Program at California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), David Meckel began his career in the Eames Office in the 1970's. Focusing on the day to day experiences of working with Charles and Ray Eames, David will portray a day in the life of the office with the images, people, and idiosyncratic pleasures that made up the rich and dynamic environment that served as the laboratory for these two great designers.

Project: Mathematica | Browse All

Date: March 27, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts

Keywords: architecture, industrial design, modern architecture, origin of the eames lounge chair design, working with ray eames, perfect color memory, working prototypes,

Real: 256K

Mathematica: Steve Cabella and Joseph Rosa: Reflections on Eames Design (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:12:03

In a broad-ranging look at the impact of Eames design on contemporary culture, Steve Cabella hosts a discussion with Joseph Rosa, Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Project: Mathematica | Browse All

Date: February 27, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts

Keywords: the modern eye shop, architecture, industrial design, contemporary design, nostalgia in design, revolving speaker demonstration, molded-plywood dcw, dining chair wood demonstration, film of the do-nothing machine, solrar do-nothing toy, aluminum experiments,

Real: 256K

2nd Wednesdays: Chain Reaction (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:55:14

Ever see a burning udder? Or a cement block crush a fax machine? Mechanical artistry takes new forms of whimsy as noted MIT sculptor/inventor Arthur Ganson creates tense moments of anticipation in Chain Reaction.

Project: 2nd Wednesdays | Browse All

Date: April 11, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Arts, Physics

Keywords: transference of energy, rube goldberg, tinkering, domino effect, kinetic sculpture, dynamic architecture, catalytic agents,

Real: 45K

Iron Science Teacher: Cups (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:07:01

Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: cups!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 16, 1999
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: activities, contests, experiments, paper cups, dna analogy, toothpicks, double helix activity, double helix model, dna model, paper cup speakers, dynamic speakers, amplification of sound, electromagnetism, centripical force, water wheel, watercycle, hydropower, flammable

Real: 34K


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