after dark after dark Bay Observatory Gallery and Terrace Schedule Campus map 6 Observing Landscapes Picturing California with Drew Johnson Presentations: From Private to Public: Upper Level 7:30 p.m. AFTER DARK How to an Atomic Bomb Photography as Inquiry From Private to Public: Photography With Peter Kuran With Susan Schwartzenberg as Inquiry with Susan Schwartzenberg 9:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Bay Observatory Gallery 6 Kanbar Forum East Gallery Living Systems What Makes a Picture Memorable? Activities: 4 with Tinkering Studio Staff With Aude Oliva, PhD StrangeLove 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. With Das Bus Main Level Kanbar Forum 6:00–10:00 p.m. Tintypes with the California Historical The Plaza Society and Ed Drew BAR 6:30–9:30 p.m. Wet-Plate Collodion Photography SeaGlass 4 with Cris Benton Shift-O-Scope Telescope Restaurant With Peter DaSilva 6:30–9:30 p.m. 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30 p.m. By Nicole Catrett Central Gallery 6:00–10:00 p.m. Central Gallery Catwalk overlooking the Exhibit East 3 Seeing & Listening Pigeon Surveillance Photography Development Shop Corridor Wet-Plate Collodion Photography in the Digital Age 5 With Peter DaSilva With Dino D’Ercole, Joe LaFauci, and Life-Size Stop-Motion Animation 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30 p.m. With Tinkering Studio staff Bill Milestone BAR Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio 6:30–9:30 p.m. 6:30–9:30 p.m. Robots Take Pictures Too West Gallery, Explainer Station Tinkering Studio 3 With Paul Doherty Wattis 7:00 p.m. Limited capacity. First come, first served. Webcast Studio Tintypes Photographing the Universe with ATM Hubble with Zolt Lavey With the California Historical Society Lens Talk About It 8:00 p.m. and Ed Drew With the Field Trip Explainers Elevator and the Geometry of Vision 6:30–9:30 p.m. 6:30–10:00 p.m. With Paul Stepahin First Aid East Gallery Corridor Central Gallery, Explainer Station 9:00 p.m. Food Information Kite Aerial Photography Pinhole Viewers 2 South Gallery With Cris Benton With the Explorables Lockers 2 Tinkering 7:00–10:00 p.m. 6:30–9:30 p.m. Curiosity Cabinet Restrooms East Gallery Central Gallery 6:00–10:00 p.m. Thursday, MaY 7, 2015 All materials provided; take what you make. Stairs Tilt Shift-O-Scope Telescope Photographing the Universe With Hubble Crossroads BAR By Nicole Catrett 6:00—10:00 p.m. With Zolt Lavey Photograms 6:00–10:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. With Tinkering Studio Staff Store Life-Size Stop-Motion Animation Join us for an evening exploring photography’s Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. With Tinkering Studio Staff evolution from analog to digital, looking at East Gallery Mezzanine Lab 6:30–9:30 p.m. techniques, and hearing Picturing California Limited capacity. First come, first served. Mind 1 West Gallery With Drew Johnson Cinema from photographers about their art and craft BAR Human Phenomena 7:30 p.m. 1 and what makes an image memorable. Bay Observatory Gallery With the Explainers Anonymous 6:00–8:00 p.m. Photos From the Archives Robots Take Pictures Too Bay Observatory Terrace 6:00–10:00 p.m. With Paul Doherty Pigeon Surveillance Photography 7:00 p.m. FILM: in the Digital Age with Dino D’Ercole, Café Kanbar Joe LaFauci, and Bill Milestone Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio The Horse in Motion Forum 6:30–9:30 p.m. By Eadweard Muybridge Store Cameras and the Geometry of Vision 6:00–10:00 p.m. Kanbar Forum With Paul Stepahin West Gallery The embarcadero How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb 9:00 p.m. With Peter Kuran Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio Driven: True Stories of Inspiration The Plaza 7:00 p.m. By Amy Snyder and Dia Felix StrangeLove What Makes a Picture Memorable? 6:00–10:00 p.m. (looping) With Das Bus With Aude Oliva, PhD West Gallery, Mind Cinema 6:00–10:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m. after dark members of the San Francisco Racing Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography Life-Size Stop-Motion Animation Photograms Presentations Pigeon Club, joined forces to replicate & Visual Culture at Oakland Museum of With Tinkering Studio staff With Tinkering Studio Staff that technology in the digital age, sans California, provides a view of the Port of 6:30–9:30 p.m. 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb quadcopters. Meet the descendants of the Oakland, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, Tinkering Studio East Gallery Mezzanine Lab With Peter Kuran surveillance photography pigeons and watch Angel Island, the Oakland hills, Richmond, Limited capacity. First come, first served. Very limited capacity. First come, first served. 7:00 p.m. footage made by Spike, a star racing pigeon. and more. Discover the Oakland Museum’s Kanbar Forum photography collection and fascinating stories Star in your own animated short film! Learn to create images with photosensitive about the photographers and their subjects. Stop-motion animation uses a series of still paper and developing agents. Peter Kuran, atomic history documentary Tintypes photographs to create the illusion motion. producer and author of How to Make an Atomic With the California Historical Society Bomb, will share some of the most compelling and Ed Drew Anonymous Photographs Rickshaw Camera Obscura and newly declassified photographs of atomic 6:30–9:30 p.m. With Scott Tolmie Lens Talk About It With the Explainers testing conducted by the US military after East Gallery Corridor 6:00–10:00 p.m. From Private to Public: Photography as Inquiry With the Field Trip Explainers 6:00–8:00 p.m. WWII. West Gallery With Susan Schwartzenberg 6:30–10:00 p.m. North Gallery The California Historical Society’s new series 9:00 p.m. Central Gallery, Explainer Station focuses on contemporary artists embracing These photographs, collected by photo Bay Observatory Gallery A mobile exhibit. What Makes a Picture Memorable? historic techniques. Air National Guard Staff archivist Scott Tolmie over nearly 40 years, Did you know our eyes have lenses, just like With Aude Oliva, PhD Sergeant and photographer Ed Drew uses the represent a personal portrait of human Join visual artist and Bay Observatory cameras?! Come explore this world of lenses 8:30 p.m. tintype process. He will showcase his modern- behavior. Both the people in them and the director Susan Schwartzenberg for a series of with our collection of glass, plastic, and Camera Obscura Kanbar Forum day portraits of Modoc descendants and the photographers behind the camera depict reflections on photography as a research tool. real cow eye lenses! Materials will also be With the Explainers equipment he uses to make them. relationships that are familiar and deeply felt Using a selection of her past projects, we’ll available to make your own water and 6:00–8:00 p.m. Photographs and images are everywhere, but but unknowable, inviting us to tell their story. examine her use of photographs for personal, gelatin lenses! Observatory Terrace while some stick in our minds, others are scientific, and documentary practices. quickly forgotten. Hear and see the results Kite Aerial Photography of MIT neuroscientist and computer scientist With Cris Benton Photos From the Archives Pinhole Viewers FilmS Aude Oliva’s fascinating research into the 6:30–9:30 p.m. 6:00–10:00 p.m. Activities With the Explorables question “What makes a picture memorable?” East Gallery West Gallery, Black Box 7:00–10:00 p.m. The Horse in Motion StrangeLove Central Gallery By Eadweard Muybridge Look on as landscape photographer and Since the Exploratorium opened its doors in With Das Bus 6:00–10:00 p.m. Wet-Plate Collodion Photography Exploratorium Artist-in-Residence Cris Benton the fall of 1969, photographs have captured 6:00–10:00 p.m. Be ready for the next eclipse, or just West Gallery With Peter DaSilva displays and demonstrates the gear he uses myriad museum happenings and projects. See The Plaza treat yourself to a new view of your old 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30 p.m. for aerial photography—a quiver of handmade images from the Exploratorium’s vast treasure neighborhood! The Explorables volunteers will Captured in 1878 as an informal study Central Gallery and robotic cradles that control his trove, projected with an old-fashioned slide Some suggest that the more we connect to help you make handheld pinhole viewers that of equine locomotion, these series of camera from up to a kilometer away. projector and screen. screens and devices, the less we connect with will lend you a whole new perspective. photographs became evidence of a horse’s Blending 150-year-old wet-plate collodion each other. Tonight, connect with strangers gait and a protocinematic motion study. technology with 1950s flashes, photographer through the photo booth experience. Peter DaSilva will convert part of the Central Photographing the Universe With Hubble Robots Take Pictures Too Warning: human interactions may be strange, Curiosity Camera Cabinet Gallery into a photo studio. His assistant With Zolt Lavey With Paul Doherty hilarious, uncomfortable, or beautiful—and 6:00–10:00 p.m. Driven: True Stories of Inspiration Tomas will narrate the process as DaSilva 8:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. may even result in friendship. Photo strips Tinkering Studio display cases By Amy Snyder and Dia Felix creates photographic plates of his subjects. Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio for StrangeLove participants are free; those 6:00–10:00 p.m. (looping) dasilvaphoto.com for pre-established friends and lovers are $5 West Gallery, Mind Cinema Black holes, luminous supernovas, and sights Robots have gone where no one has gone per session. Cow Eye Dissection Special thanks to Bostick & Sullivan more than 13.4 billion light-years from Earth. before and sent back photographs of things With the Explainers These photo essays tell diverse human (bostick-sullivan.com) and Magna Chrome Those and more were captured by the Hubble never before seen. Witness robot-captured 7:00, 8:00, and 9:00 p.m. stories, captured moment by moment in black (magnachrome.com) for materials. Space Telescope over the past 25 years. photos of hellaciously hot Venus, cryogenically Tilt Shift-O-Scope Telescope East Gallery and white. The more than one million stunning images cold Titan, and many places in between. By Nicole Catrett produced help us understand the mysteries of 6:00–10:00 p.m. (Tonight only!) Pigeon Surveillance Photography the universe. Hubble imaging expert Zolt Levay Catwalk overlooking the Exhibit Development Camera Dissection Featured Exhibits in the Digital Age from the Space Telescope Institute will discuss Cameras and the Geometry of Vision Shop With the Explainers With Dino D’Ercole, Joe LaFauci, and the science and art of translating Hubble’s data With Paul Stepahin 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30 p.m. Look for our photography exhibits marked by Bill Milestone into colorful photographs of the cosmos. 9:00 p.m. The Tilt Shift-O-Scope, created by East Gallery a film strip icon. 6:30–9:30 p.m. Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio Exploratorium exhibit designer Nicole Catrett, West Gallery, Explainer Station is a special telescope that uses a very large Picturing California: 165 Years of As cameras became more sophisticated, lens and a tilted glass screen to make the During World Wars I and II, homing pigeons Photography at the Oakland Museum so too did our understanding of projective world look like a toy model of itself. Cocktails are were used for battlefield surveillance of California geometry. In this brief talk, we’ll explore how Tag and share #exploratorium available all . Exploratorium photographer With Drew Johnson the art of photography has helped reveal the at bars and in the Amy Snyder and Dino D’Ercole, Joe LaFauci, 7:30 p.m. elegant mathematics of vision. SeaGlass Restaurant. and Bill Milestone, pigeon breeders and Bay Observatory Gallery