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MIRROR MIRROR the Mind’S Mirror FILMS Seaglass 4 Restaurant 5 Outdoor Exhibits with Zarinah Agnew 7:30 P.M AFTER DARK AFTER DARK SCHEDULE MAP PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITIES Upper Level Bay Observatory Gallery and Terrace 6 Observing Landscapes Mirrors in Technology and Art Through the Looking Glass Mirrors in Technology and Art With Sebastian Martin With the Explainers 6 With Sebastian Martin 6:30–8:30 p.m. | Bay Observatory Gallery 6:30–9:30 p.m. | Central Gallery 6:30–8:30 p.m. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015 A Reflection on Mirrors Light Boxes and Anamorphic Mirrors The History of Mirrors 6:00—10:00 P.M. With Ron Hipschman With Explorables With Massimo Mazzotti 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. 7:00–10:00 p.m. | Central Gallery Main Level 8:30 p.m. Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio BAR North Gallery MIRROR MIRROR The Mind’s Mirror FILMS SeaGlass 4 Restaurant 5 Outdoor Exhibits With Zarinah Agnew 7:30 p.m. | Kanbar Forum On Reflection East Gallery 9:00 p.m. | Kanbar Forum 4 Living Systems The History of Mirrors East With Massimo Mazzotti Corridor Contemplando la Ciudad (2005, 4 min.) Central Gallery 8:30 p.m. | Bay Observatory Gallery by Angela Reginato 5 3 Seeing & Listening Visions of a City (1978, 8 min.) by Lawrence Jordan A Reflection on Mirrors INSTALLATIONS BAR 3 With Ron Hipschman Suspended 2 (2005, 5 min.) by Amy Hicks Wattis 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. The Infinity Boxes Webcast Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio Studio By Matt Elson Pier 15 (2013, 4 min.) by Michael Rudnick 6:00–10:00 p.m. | Central Gallery The Infinity Boxes By Matt Elson Visible Spectres 6:00–10:00 p.m. By Kerry Laitala Through the Looking Glass 6:00–10:00 p.m. | West Gallery, Black Box FOOD With the Explainers 2 6:30–9:30 p.m. Light Boxes and Anamorphic Mirrors With Explorables 7:00–10:00 p.m. UPCOMING BAR South Gallery Store 2 Tinkering Teeny Tiny Glow Thursday, November 5 Thursday, December 3 West Gallery 1 Human Phenomena Discover some of the half million organisms that Excite your atoms at this festival of ebullient lights 1 Visible Spectres can live inside a single drop of seawater; turn and subtle glows celebrating the close of the year. BAR By Kerry Laitala your cell phone into a microscope; get to know the Bask in the mesmerizing gleams of special artworks 6:00–10:00 p.m. | Black Box many microbes living in your gut; and consider our and installations, take a shine to illuminating small place in the colossal universe. films and exhibits, and show your sparkle with Kanbar Forum scintillating activities. The Mind’s Mirror With Zarinah Agnew The Plaza Café Kanbar Forum 7:30 p.m. | Kanbar Forum Store On Reflection 9:00 p.m. | Kanbar Forum THE EMBARCADERO Featuring: Contemplando la Ciudad Visions of a City Restrooms Stairs Elevator Lockers Suspended 2 Cocktails are available all night at bars and in the SeaGlass Restaurant. First Aid ATM Information Pier 15 AFTER DARK How many mirrors have you passed by today? Once small, THE HISTORY OF MIRRORS known as “Pepper’s ghost,” used in theaters, FILMS EXHIBITS With Massimo Mazzotti haunted houses, sideshows, and magic tricks. rare, and coveted, mirrors nowadays are commonplace 8:30 p.m. | Bay Observatory Gallery Do YOU see ghosts? ON REFLECTION Peer into the scientific and cultural history of and key to many modern tools, from HDTVs to space Mirrors were once small, rare, and denoted Kerry Laitala is an award-winning, moving-image 9:00 p.m. | Kanbar Forum one of humankind’s most influential and intimate symbols of wealth. Today they are so widespread artist who uses analog, digital, and hybrid forms technologies with our carefully curated collection telescopes. As you walk through our hall of mirrors, you we are mostly oblivious to their presence. And to investigate the ways in which media influences Contemplando la Ciudad (2005, 4 min.), by Angela of exhibits. yet, these are among the most extraordinary past and present culture. Her 2015 City Luminous Reginato, follows the complex emotional changes may see yourself, and the nature of reflections, in ways artifacts we can encounter, their use spanning series encompasses the realms of installation, seen in a young woman spending time alone. The Plaza multi-projector performance, photography, and from household items to sophisticated scientific Anamorphic Bench you’ve never considered before. instruments. Mirrors have been used to explore single-channel film. Visions of a City (1978, 8 min.) was originally shot both the depths of the universe and the mystery kerrylaitala.net in 1957 and edited in 1978 by Lawrence Jordan. of the self. Discover the intriguing history of A man emerges from reflections on shop and car Crossroads this technology and its intersections with magic, windows, bottles, mirrors, and more in this portrait All Eyes on Me religion, and science. of both San Francisco and celebrated local poet PRESENTATIONS ACTIVITIES See Yourself on the Inside Michael McClure. Massimo Mazzotti is a historian and sociologist of Your Father’s Nose MIRRORS IN TECHNOLOGY AND ART science at the University of California, Berkeley, THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Suspended 2 (2005, 5 min.), by Amy Hicks, With Sebastian Martin where he is Director of the Center for Science, With the Explainers presents a series of abstracted drives across West Gallery 6:30–8:30 p.m. | Bay Observatory Gallery Technology, Medicine & Society. His research 6:30–9:30 p.m. | Central Gallery the Bay Bridge evoking technical drawings and explores the social and cultural dimension of futuristic space travel. Hot Spot Artists and scientists have long played with science and technology. Follow in Alice’s footsteps and walk through the Recollections mirrors to change the path of light and, in turn, looking glass. As you approach the flat, virtual Pier 15 (2013, 4 min.) Artist-in-Residence Michael Self-Centered Mirror better understand the world around us. Join mirror reflected in the Giant Mirror exhibit, your Rudnick took the reflective walls of the Bay Exploratorium scientist Sebastian Martin to explore INSTALLATIONS face will distort and reassemble in Wonderland— Observatory as inspiration in condensing the light Self-Excluding Mirror a variety of new and historic instruments that use upside down. You can even video the experience rhythms and tempestual moods of Pier 15 during Simply Smashing mirrors and reflection, such as a camera lucida, by holding a camera under your chin. its early occupation by the Exploratorium in 2012. Sketch Mirror hyper-stereo viewers, sextants, and nephoscopes. THE INFINITY BOXES By Matt Elson Tearful Reflections Sebastian Martin is a content developer for the 6:00–10:00 p.m. | Central Gallery Bay Observatory Gallery. He has a background in LIGHT BOXES AND ANAMORPHIC MIRRORS Central Gallery earth sciences and physics, and likes to create Peer inside The Infinity Boxes to encounter With Explorables instruments to observe and better understand the THE MIND’S MIRROR dreamlike wonderlands of playfully altered 7:00–10:00 p.m. | Central Gallery Animation Tower With Zarinah Agnew environment. perception. Appearing in elaborate, custom-built Anti-Gravity Mirror 7:30 p.m. | Kanbar Forum boxes adorned with abstract oil paintings, these Anamorphic Mirrors: Have you ever looked in Aurora artworks combine mirrors, light, color, and viewer a spoon and wondered why your face looks Why do you cry at the movies? Cringe when interactions to produce seemingly limitless fields of distorted? Explore the fascinating world of curved Binocular Rivalry you see someone skin their knee? One popular A REFLECTION ON MIRRORS reflections. The Infinity Boxes will remain on view mirrors. Can you make a distorted image look Color Collage With Ron Hipschman explanation for these sensations is a subset of during regular daytime hours through October 4. normal? Corner Reflector 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. brain cells called mirror neurons. Some assert that Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio these cells are among the most important findings Matt Elson is a pioneering and internationally Light Boxes: The wondrous cousin of the Cylindrical Mirror in the last decade of neuroscience. Others claim award-winning computer graphics artist who has kaleidoscope, the light box uses curved mirrors Duck into a Kaleidoscope Why do you see yourself in reverse when you that mirror neurons are the “most hyped concept worked in the high end of 3–D computer graphics to create patterns of lights and colors from your Everyone Is You and Me look in a mirror? Why are you not upside down? in neuroscience.” So what's the truth? What are since 1982. In 2005, he returned to making fine environment. See how this toy changes your Exploratorium scientist Ron Hipschman reveals mirror neurons, and what do we know about them? art and is currently producing The Infinity Boxes. perspective on the world around you. Giant Mirror Do humans have them? Are they the neural basis of the physics behind different types of mirrors and theinfinityboxes.com Mirror Mirror reflects on fascinating aspects of their construction empathy? Hear UCSF neuroscientist Zarinah Agnew Run by a highly skilled, dedicated team of Mirrorly a Window and applications. explain—and debunk—the hype. volunteers, Explorables workshops mix classic activities with open-ended investigations, Robot Dance Zarinah Agnew is a neuroscientist at the University Ron Hipschman has worn many hats since he VISIBLE SPECTRES encouraging participants to follow their hunches Rotating Faces joined the Exploratorium in 1971, including of California, San Francisco, studying how the By Kerry Laitala to aha moments of scientific insight. Sun Painting creating its first website—among the first 600 brain processes perception and the production 6:00–10:00 p.m. | West Gallery, Black Box in the world.
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