The Exploratorium’s new Mind exhibition, four years in the making, runs November 9, 2007-December 31, 2008, and includes the cutting-edge work of both artists and scientists.
The artworks include:
Animal Cam, By Sam Easterson
Video artist Sam Easterson documents a world very different from the one we are used to. Animal Cam shows us the world as seen by a wide range of non-human creatures. Easterson mounts tiny cameras on animals in the wild to record both their activities and points of view on their surroundings. The footage he obtains makes human viewers deeply rethink their own places and roles in their environments. (Easterson’s cameras eventually detach themselves from their hosts.) Animal Cam shows the world from perspectives as diverse as those of an armadillo, alligator, a bison, a scorpion, and even a housefly. (He also records the world from plants’ vantage points.) He is a graduate of New York’s Cooper Union and the University of Minnesota.
Time-Lapse, By Jona Frank
Time-lapse photographer and filmmaker Jona Frank’s images explore personal identity and social dynamics. Her photo exhibit, Time-Lapse, invites viewers to test their assumptions about people and how they grow and change with time. Enigmatic images of several people at different stages in their lives generate feelings of surprise, wistfulness, even recognition, and prompt visitors to ponder their own expectations about personality, identity, and appearance. Frank’s films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and on PBS. -- www.exploratorium.edu
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