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Jessica Strick
Lead Exhibit Developer
In her ideal world, all exhibits would be immersive experiences, and she has started many ideas off with “if we had a room . . . .” A few pivotal moments led her to this interest: realizing, as a Bay Area Discovery Museum guide, that there was a career in making such things as indoor ship and crawling tunnels; deciding, despite having studied history and film, that she actually wanted to be in a workshop making things; creating, to her roommates’ ire, a bathroom entirely filled with pink Slinkies; and then, digging way back, remembering the delight and wonder she felt walking into her childhood home transformed by her big sister into a birthday party funhouse. An underlying interest in playfulness inspires Jessica to make exhibits that allow people to explore both physical and social phenomena by playing with materials, whether theater gels, toy robots, jelly beans, or colorful yarn.
Related Exhibits
Animation Tower
Quick-changing views create the illusion of motion.
Bronze Hand
The combination of past experience and the sight and feel of being touched seems to change your brain's definition of your body's boundaries. You may even feel as if the fake hand is part of you.
Color Your Judgment
Your expectations may change your experience.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Monochromatic Room
Things look oddly colorless in this room because they’re lit by light of only one color—a sodium vapor lamp of the type often used for streetlights.
Robot Dance
Quick-changing views create the illusion of motion.
