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Coupled Pendulums
Start one of these two pendulums swinging and soon you’ll see the other pendulum start swinging, too. Keep watching and you’ll see the two pendulums take turns, alternately swinging energetically and coming to a near standstill.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
Giant Mirror
This giant mirror was originally part of a flight simulator. Its size and near-perfect smoothness makes for astonishing optical (and acoustic) effects.
Peacemaker
Hold hands with friends or strangers to create human circuits between lights. This interactive installation invites you to physically and energetically connect with others to create something special.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Icy Bodies
Like comets, these chunks of dry ice slowly disintegrate as they move, leaving a visible trail of condensed water vapor.
Illuminated Fog
Swirling, drifting, billowing movements of air reveal themselves in the fog.
Liquid Litmus
See the chemical reactions taking place in an electrolytic cell, as electricity flowing through a tank of salt water and pH-indicating dye creates zones of acidic (yellow) and basic (blue) solutions.
Listening Vessels
Enormous parabolic sculptures transmit a conversation—or even a whisper—from one person to another across a great distance.
After Dark: Pride—Unheard Stories
Thursday, June 9, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Join us in celebrating Pride Month!
Coupled Resonant Pendulums
Two pendulums suspended from a common support will swing back and forth in intriguing patterns if the support allows the motion of one pendulum to influence the motion of the other.
Double Horizon | Lia Halloran
An immersive three-screen video installation with an original musical composition.
Coupled Resonant Pendulums
Two pendulums influence each other’s motion to create Intriguing patterns.
After Dark: See for Yourself
Thursday, June 16, 2022 • 6:00–10:00 p.m. PT
Take your imagination out to play!
Oscylinderscope
A piece consisting of a cylinder and guitar strings, that when plucked, demonstrate how strings behave when they vibrate to produce sound. Both the tension and the length of a string effect the frequency of vibration (pitch of the sound).
Out Quiet Yourself
As you walk across the gravel floor of this short tunnel, a sound meter measures your loudness and gives you a score. Can you beat your previous score? Can you beat your friends’ scores?
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Pendulum Snake
Lift the handle to start this row of pendulums swinging, and then watch as they move in and out of a repeating series of mesmerizing patterns.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
Pulling Together
Do you work your hardest when you’re working with others? Does it make a difference if other people can see how hard you’re working? Grab a rope, get ready to pull, and experience the phenomenon of social loafing firsthand.
Where: Gallery 5: Outdoor Exhibits
Rift Zone
Rift Zone uses air bubbling up through fine sand to suggest a small-scale geothermal landscape. By turning a knob, viewers can change the pressure of the air rising up through the sand and alter the shapes and patterns of the landscape.
Seeing and Listening Explainer Station
Explainers do light and sound demonstrations.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Sharing Faces
Sit down at this new-media exhibit and you'll see someone else's face looking back at you. When you move around or make a face, your movements and expressions are matched by images of countless others who have done the same thing.
Where: Gallery 5: Outdoor Exhibits
Touch the Spring
Light from a real spring bounces off the mirror to form the image you see.
Where: Crossroads: Getting Started
Triple-Aye Lightstick
A sweeping glance creates images that appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. This phenomenon, called persistence of vision, is also at work in videos and movie projections, which also flash on and off rapidly.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Turntable
Experiment with rotational motion (and collisions) here at one of our most addictive exhibits. Disks and balls moving on and across this spinning table swoop and veer hypnotically—and also reveal why storm systems often follow curved paths on weather maps.
Unseen Stories
The people we pass by on the street have stories to tell—and so do we. Slow down your thinking and consider these questions: What do people assume about me based on how I look, talk, dress, or carry myself? What do I assume about others, and what might the real story be?
Where: Gallery 5: Outdoor Exhibits
What's Hot, What's Not?
At this exhibit, an infrared camera detects the heat radiating from warm objects and projects it on a big screen, allowing you to see what’s hot (and not) about you and the other people and objects in your surroundings.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Hybrid Spinning Tops Workshop with Right to Play
This spring, Deanna and I co-designed and facilitated a hybrid spinning tops workshop with our collaborators at Right to Play in Rwanda through the Tech & Play project. This workshop was for educators in Rwanda who have an interest in playful ways to engage with making, tinkering, and technology.
Moore Gallery 4 Closing Early for Private Event
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Moore Gallery 4 will be closing early at 4:30 p.m. for a private event.
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