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

After Dark: Distortion: Thee Oh Sees and Harry Smith Film (Clip)

Running Time:
00:01:49

A highlight of this After Dark evening was Thee Oh Sees, one of the Bay Area’s best underground bands, who created a playful aural disorientation while playing in front of “visual music” by the late experimental filmmaker and musicologist Harry Smith.

Project: After Dark | Browse All

Date: March 4, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: music, band, concert, thee oh sees, harry smith, experimental, art, film, after dark

Speaking of Music Rewind: Laurie Anderson Part 1 (Podcast)

Running Time:
01:15:45

Laurie Anderson is a groundbreaking American composer, vocalist, instrumentalist, and performance artist. She is celebrated for her multimedia performances and innovative use of technology in art. In this candid, in-depth interview from December 1984, Anderson talks about her very diverse inspirations, including her relationship to technology, her past lives, television, and handheld versus electronic instruments. She also plays samples of the music and sounds that fuel her process, as well as some of her own work

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: November 20, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: laurie anderson, speaking of music, 40th, experimental music, composing

Links:

Laurie Anderson Website

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Speaking of Music Rewind: Laurie Anderson Part 2 (Podcast)

Running Time:
01:14:06

Laurie Anderson is a groundbreaking American composer, vocalist, instrumentalist, and performance artist. She is celebrated for her multimedia performances and innovative use of technology in art. In this candid, in-depth interview from December 1984, Anderson talks about her very diverse inspirations, including her relationship to technology, her past lives, television, and handheld versus electronic instruments. She also plays samples of the music and sounds that fuel her process, as well as some of her own work.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: November 20, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: laurie anderson, speaking of music, 40th, experimental music, composing

Links:

Laurie Anderson Website

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Speaking of Music Rewind: Philip Glass Part 1 (Podcast)

Running Time:
01:17:06

Philip Glass is an enduringly prolific composer, collaborator, intellectual, and one of the inventors of a type of music called minimalism. In this extensive and candid interview from 1988, Glass discusses many things including his involvement in world music, his innovative approach to rhythm, and his work with film and opera. He also talks about the people who have inspired him, including legendary composer, conductor, and teacher Nadia Boulanger and sitarist Ravi Shankar. The interview includes many samples of his musical work.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: November 19, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: philip glass, speaking of music, 40th, experimental music

Links:

Phillip Glass Website

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Speaking of Music Rewind: Philip Glass Part 2 (Podcast)

Running Time:
01:06:25

Philip Glass is an enduringly prolific composer, collaborator, intellectual, and inventor of a pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and sitarist Ranew kind of music now known as minimalism. In this extensive and candid interview from 1988, Glass discusses many things, including his involvement in world music, his innovative approach to rhythm, and his work with film and opera. He also talks about the people who have inspired him, including legendary vi Shankar, and the unique human narratives that he finds inspirational. The interview includes many samples of his musical work.

Project: Speaking of Music Rewind | Browse All

Date: November 19, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: philip glass, speaking of music, 40th, experimental music

Links:

Phillip Glass Website

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Seeing: Visual Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:24:22

What is visual literacy--and who is literate? Join guest lecturer James Elkins in an evening of commentary on the many ways we "read" the visual world and assign meaning to what we see.

Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts

Keywords: visual studies, visual culture, interpretation of images, art history, visual analysis, visual coomunication

Real: 256K

Origins: Antarctica: Antarctica: Tunneling at the South Pole (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:27:16

Live from the South Pole-tunneling under the ice in Antarctica! Exploratorium staff members Mary Miller and Noel Wanner report back on the scientific studies going on at the South Pole.

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: December 22, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology

Keywords: south pole, antarctica, mary miller, noel wanner, ice, snow, satellite, scientific studies,

Real: 225K 1M

Windows Media: 659K

AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: String Squirter Exhibit 2 (Webcast)

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0:16:17

In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast: the String Squirter exhibit, as explained by a guest physicist Leon Lederman.

Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All

Date: February 18, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, complexity, rope squirter exhibit, angular momentum, conservation of motion, wave propagation, non-linear behavior, oscillation, potential energy, damping,

Real: 35K

AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: String Squirter Exhibit (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:29:37

In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast: the String Squirter exhibit as explained by physicist and Nobel laureate Leon Lederman

Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All

Date: February 16, 2001
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, complexity, string squirter exhibit, angular momentum, conservation of motion, wave propagation, non-linear behavior, oscillation, potential energy, damping,

Real: 35K

AAAS Dispatches: Stump the Scientist: Benham's Disk Exhibit (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:23:03

In these archived webcasts from inside the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) exhibition hall, watch as Exploratorium senior scientist Tom Humphrey challenges some of the top scientists in the world to explain the phenomena behind selected exhibits from the museum floor. In this webcast, the Benham's Disk exhibit explained by guests from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and University High School in San Francisco

Project: AAAS Annual Meeting Dispatches, San Francisco | Browse All

Date: February 16, 1997
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: scientific process, scientific method, hypothesis, experimental studies, optical illusions, perception of color, circular motion

Real: 35K


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