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

ARTNANO: Trailer from All That Remains (Clip)

Running Time:
00:06:00

Animated abstract images create a portrait of matter in perpetual decomposition.

Project: ARTNANO | Browse All

Date: February 8, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art

Keywords: nano, art, film, video, rephotography, animation

ARTNANO: Trailer from Runa’s Spell (Clip)

Running Time:
00:03:30

Runa’s Spell conveys a moment of connectedness with the sensual persuasions of an imaginary world. Image and music interact in a dramatic way to deepen and enhance the perception of enchantment and longing. The visuals consist of digitally interwoven and layered animated hand-paintings on 35mm film stock, animated objects and cutouts, and pixilation of live creatures. The music attempts to create a spiritual sense of journey through the fractional evocation of ancient Egyptian folk song. The sonorous texture of trembling and contorted images illustrate the hesitation, solitude, and endless dreamscape of the human mind.

Project: ARTNANO | Browse All

Date: January 31, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art, physics

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Seeing Gallery: Virtual Unreality: Scalable Cities (Clip)

Running Time:
00:02:10

Artist Sheldon Brown creates an urban/suburban/rural environment in which the visitor literally "paints" the flying landscape with highways, buildings, and automobiles. This exhibit was part of the Virtual Unreality exhibition.

Project: Seeing Gallery | Browse All

Date: January 1, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, General Science

Keywords: exhibit, virtual, virtual environment, interactive, virtual unrealtity

Links:

Press Release: Virtual Unreality Interactive Digital Artworks

Real: 256K

Windows Media: 256K

Teacher Institute: Modesto Tamez: San Francisco 101 (Podcast)

Running Time:
00:30:26

The Teacher Institute's own food and entertainment maven takes us on a whirlwind tour of our golden city. Find out about the cheapest eats, the best place to see Art Deco or to go kayaking, and where to get insulted while you get your sandwich. These are Modesto's opinions; they don't represent the Exploratorium or its funders.

Project: Teacher Institute Summer Institute | Browse All

Date: April 25, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s):

Keywords: food, restaurants, exploratorium, entertainment

Links:

Modesto's Best

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Faultline: Seismic Science: San Francisco in Jell-O (Clip)

Running Time:
00:00:40

This wobbly luminescent sculpture by Liz Hickok is both art work and a simulation of how a San Francisco neighborhood might jiggle when the Big One strikes.

Project: Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter | Browse All

Date: January 1, 2005
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art, Geology/Earth Science

Keywords: jello, art, earthquake, san francisco, liz hickok

QuickTime: 482K

Return to Mars: Pop Culture Mars (Webcast)

Running Time:
0:50:00

From science fiction and toys to invasion of Mars movies, we'll take a look at how martians have inspired our imaginations.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: January 18, 2004
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: mars, mer, robots, science, images, horizon, craters, surfaces, dry lakes, rocks, wheels, cameras, nasa, jpl, rat, solar power, target.

Real: 225K

Light and Landscape: James Turrell (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:14:57

James Turrell studied optics and perceptual psychology in college, but gravitated towards art as his curiosity led him to investigate light itself. In this Webcast of a lecture, James Turrell discusses his experiences manipulating pure light and how it became his artistic medium. He reveals how this early work led him to discover Roden Crater in Arizona and to create his subsequent lifelong project of transforming the crater into an astronomical observatory.

Project: Light and Landscape | Browse All

Date: September 16, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts, General Science

Keywords: perception, art in nature, rosen crater, perceptual psychology, optical illusions, seeing from within, forms in light, installation artist, effect of light, luminous light works,

Real: 225K

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

Mathematica: An Evening with Eames Demetrios (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:23:34

Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles Eames, has been director of the Eames office since 1993. Author, lecturer, multimedia designer, and filmmaker, his most recent book, An Eames Primer, is an intimate and informative look at the philosophy and spirit behind the work of Charles and Ray Eames.

Project: Mathematica | Browse All

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

Keywords: eames design process, film of 901 washington blvd, design q&a film, design q & a film, toccata for toy trains film, eames house, honest use of materials, eames lounge chair film, powers of ten film excerpt, phil and phylis morrison, order in the world, extending exp

Real: 80K

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


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