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Exploratorium footage of totality from the 2016 solar eclipse.

Where will you be for 2017? I month away, on 8-21-17.

Join us online, on our free app, or at the museum!

exploratorium.edu/eclipse

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1 month from now, on August 21st, 2017, a total solar eclipse will pass across the USA. Where are you going to be to watch it?

Join the Exploratorium as we bring you 5 live streams from the 2017 eclipse, with two locations in Oregon and Wyoming!

For more information and many related eclipse assets, please visit:

www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse

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Please enjoy this 3rd of several artist portraits featuring fantastic artist Carlos Arturo Zapata Galvis. This set of videos are about the automata artists featured in the Exploratorium's Curious Contraptions show. The exhibition is up in San Francisco until January 29th, come by and see some of these magical creations!!

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Meet Keith Newstead, one of the automata artists whose work is showcased at the Exploratorium's Curious Contraptions exhibition.

Curious Contraptions at the Exploratorium Featuring Cabaret Mechanical Theatre November 17th, 2016-January 29, 2017 This special exhibition features more than 20 charming and often hilarious mechanical sculptures known as automata. Their whimsical characters are brought to life by intricate arrangements of cams, cranks, and other simple mechanisms. Each sculpture performs an absurd miniature drama that often reflects its maker’s dark and very British sense of humor. Exposed inner workings encourage visitors to investigate the low-tech mechanisms used to make these automata move. Additional exhibits offer a closer look at the most common simple mechanisms. The exhibition also features sketches from the notebooks of leading automata artist Paul Spooner, as well as photographs of his delightfully cluttered workshop. Most of the automata on display are on loan from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, British advocates of this peculiar art form for more than 30 years.

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This is the DieselPunk Pegasus automata by artist Keith Newstead, now on display at the Exploratorium as part of our Curious Contraptions exhibition. Show is on until January 29th, 2017, learn more here:

https://www.exploratorium.edu/curious-contraptions

Photos by Gayle Laird

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Marielle Jakobsons will be performing live at the Exploratorium on Thursday, December 8th, 2016!!

8pm

Tickets available here:

https://www.exploratorium.edu/arts/resonance/calendar/marielle-jakobsons

“What Marielle has replicated … is the exuberance of nature, the subtle, superabundance of the given thing itself.” —Tiny Mix Tapes

Immerse yourself in the intricate dance of music and visual motion performed by composer and intermedia artist Marielle Jakobsons. For Resonance, she’ll accompany her transcendent compositions for synthesizers, strings, flute, and voice with projections from her “macro-cymatic visual music instrument,” which converts audio vibrations into hypnotic waves of water and light.

The program will include a live performance of works from Jakobson’s acclaimed album Star Core(Thrilljockey, 2016) followed by a screening of ‘Recognition’ for Prepared Piano, Sine Waves, and Macro-Cymatic Instrument (2015) an audiovisual composition invoking our bodies’ cellular vibrations.

Marielle Jakobsons

Marielle V. Jakobsons is a composer and intermedia artist based in Oakland, CA. Her compositions evoke minimalism with melodic drone and enveloping polyrhythmic soundscapes of synthesizers, strings, and voice. She builds installations and instruments, such as her macro-cymatic visual music instruments, which bring focus to visceral experiences of sound and light.

Jakobsons collaborates extensively in the experimental arts as a sound designer and composer for film, dance, and interactive media, and produces her own videos and photographs, which have been exhibited nationally. As a solo multi-instrumentalist, and with her bands Date Palms and Myrmyr and other collaborations, she’s published recordings and toured internationally on Thrill Jockey, Mexican Summer, Students of Decay, Digitalis, and Important Records, among others.

Artist's website: http://mariellejakobsons.com/

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Resonance: Unheard Sounds, Undiscovered Music

www.exploratorium.edu/arts/resonance Tickets on sale now for 2016-2017 season! Explore distant realms of musical possibility with Resonance. The Exploratorium’s evening music series features contemporary musicians and sound artists performing and discussing their ideas, inspirations, and creative processes. 

This season’s artists include:

Marielle Jakobsons

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Immerse yourself in the intricate dance of music and visual motion performed by composer and intermedia artist Marielle Jakobsons. Transcendent compositions for synthesizers, strings, flute, and voice will be accompanied by hypnotic projections of water and light.

Hieroglyphic Being

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Encounter the cosmic transmissions of Hieroglyphic Being, a.k.a. Jamal Moss, an experimental composer and environmental sound artist. Moss draws on Chicago house music and free jazz to create what he calls “synth expressionism” and “rhythmic cubism.”

Okkyung Lee

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Experience the thrilling improvisations of renowned cellist Okkyung Lee. Drawing from noise and extended techniques, jazz, Western classical, and Korean traditional and popular music, Lee’s intensely physical performances cross exhilarating new territories of sound.

Lisa Mezzacappa

Thursday, March 9, 2017

The formidable bassist, bandleader, composer, curator, and producer Lisa Mezzacappa presents ORGANELLE, a musical exploration of time from the nano to cosmic scale.

Chris Brown and Vân-Ánh Võ

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Traditional Vietnamese music and live electronics converge in the fascinating collaborations of Chris Brown and Vân-Ánh Võ. For Resonance, Võ performs on the đàn tranh zither, đàn bầu monochord, and other Vietnamese instruments in conversation with Brown’s interactive electronics.

All programs begin at 8pm in the Kanbar Forum. General museum admission is included in the price of Resonance tickets.

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One Thousand Ideas by Paul Spooner

Come see more of his drawings at part of the Exploratorium’s Curious Contraptions exhibition, Nov. 17-Jan 29

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Exploratorium staff take on a #mannequinchallenge in our new exhibition, Curious Contraptions!

Come see this amazing collection of automata and more, Nov. 17- Jan. 29, at Pier 15, San Francisco

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Diesel Punk Pegasus, by Keith Newstead

Come see at as part of Curious Contraptions at the Exploratorium

Nov. 17, 2016-Jan 29, 2017

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Mechanical Sculptures by Paul Spooner That Depict Absurd Scenes With a Wicked Sense of Humor

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Thank you Laughing Squid!

xxx Love, the Exploratorium

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Curious Contraptions at the Exploratorium Featuring Cabaret Mechanical Theatre November 17th, 2016-January 29, 201 This video features the "DieselPunk Pegasus", a special commission made by artist Keith Newstead and featured in our new exhibition, Curious Contraptions! Check it out! https://www.exploratorium.edu/curious... This special exhibition features more than 20 charming and often hilarious mechanical sculptures known as automata. Their whimsical characters are brought to life by intricate arrangements of cams, cranks, and other simple mechanisms. Each sculpture performs an absurd miniature drama that often reflects its maker’s dark and very British sense of humor. Exposed inner workings encourage visitors to investigate the low-tech mechanisms used to make these automata move. Additional exhibits offer a closer look at the most common simple mechanisms. Most of the automata on display are on loan from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, British advocates of this peculiar art form for more than 30 years.

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Curious Contraptions at the Exploratorium Featuring Cabaret Mechanical Theatre November 17th, 2016-January 29, 2017 This special exhibition features more than 20 charming and often hilarious mechanical sculptures known as automata. Their whimsical characters are brought to life by intricate arrangements of cams, cranks, and other simple mechanisms. Each sculpture performs an absurd miniature drama that often reflects its maker’s dark and very British sense of humor. Exposed inner workings encourage visitors to investigate the low-tech mechanisms used to make these automata move. Additional exhibits offer a closer look at the most common simple mechanisms. The exhibition also features sketches from the notebooks of leading automata artist Paul Spooner, as well as photographs of his delightfully cluttered workshop. Most of the automata on display are on loan from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, British advocates of this peculiar art form for more than 30 years.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/curious-contraptions

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Winter Exhibition 2016, at the Exploratorium

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The Bone Shakers by Matt Smith

This automata is one of many that will be on display in the upcoming winter exhibition at the Exploratorium, called “Curious Contraptions”, which will be opening on November 17th and run until January 29th.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/curious-contraptions

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Join Academy and Tony award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Brazil) and American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff in this intimate conversation with Exploratorium Executive Associate Director Robert Semper. They'll discuss A.C.T.'s upcoming production of The Hard Problem, Stoppard's provocative new drama of sex, science, and supercomputing.

Recorded live at the Exploratorium, October 13, 2016

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Here’s a few images of automata from our upcoming winter exhibition at the Exploratorium, called “Curious Contraptions featuring Cabaret Mechanical Theatre”. The show will run November 17th, 2016-January 29th, 2017.

The pieces themselves are called:

How to Live No. 17

Poisoned Milk

Barecats

All artworks by artist Paul Spooner

Photo credit: Amy Snyder

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