After Dark: Spin

Wheels do it. Electrons do it. Even plants and planets do it. Explore a universal motion at Spin.

Learn how physicist Carl Haber digitally maps old recordings to recover lost sounds, and hear how the spinning tendencies of electrons shape the entire physical world from physicist Robert Cahn. Find out what plants know about numbers through the spiralling sculptures of John Edmark, and untangle the secrets of silk-producing insects and spiders with entomologist Ralph Washington, Jr.

Give big-top tricks a whirl with Circus Center and get your fibers in a twist with Spindles and Flyers. Pedal artist Natalie Trujillo's bicycle-powered treadle lathe to help carve a wooden top, or make one of your ownâ€"as well as rotocopters, thaumatropes, and homopolar motors. Looping films round out the evening with dizzying scenes and mesmerizing abstractions.

Age 18+