Today's World of Tomorrow: After Dark

Explore emergent ideas and future artifacts at tonight’s After Dark, such as space travel, robots, future foods, and San Francisco’s evolving cityscape.

Sewn Scenarios  With PNosa 

Think of any scenario. Put it into five words or less. Now watch as artist Paul Nosa interprets your words and uses a sewing machine to draw the resulting image on fabric.

Embroidered patches will be available for purchase.

PNosa is a sewing artist who draws with a sewing machine (without a computer or a template) powered by a solar panel and a bicycle electric generator. Paul is on a sewing tour across America facilitating people's creativity and demonstrating alternative energy sources.

Infinity Room Special Preview
By Refik Anadol
After Dark Members • 6:00-8:00 p.m.
General Admission • 8:30-10:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Black Box

Step into an otherworldly portal and envelop yourself in distorted light and perpetually morphing visuals. Watch the walls melt away as the barrier between the material and virtual realms blur into infinity. Infinity Room opens Thursday, June 14 and runs through Sunday, July 15, 2018. Please note that strobe effects are used in this artwork.

Getting Along with Robots With Anca Dragan
7:30 p.m. | Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum

Autonomy that interacts that collaborates and coexists with humans is becoming more and more functional, making its way out of research labs and into industry. Learn how Anca Dragan's InterACT Labis weaving interaction into the fabric of robot autonomy.

Bay Water Desalination Tour With Chuck Mignacco
8:00 p.m. | Gallery 2
Meet by the Exhibit Development Shop

Each day, Fog Bridge #72494, an artwork by Fujiko Nakaya, pumps pressurized, desalinated water through 800 nozzles, shrouding visitors in fog. Take a tour of the Exploratorium’s desalination plant and experience Fog Bridge in action.

Building the Future with Biology With Matias Kaplan
8:30 p.m. | Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum

From brewing beer to breeding plants humans have engineered biology for millennia. Explore the ways that CRISPR, a bacterial immune system, has revolutionized our relationship with biology and how gene editing will transform our lives and (maybe) what it means to be human.

Bay Water Room Tour With Chuck Mignacco
9:00 p.m. | Gallery 4, Bay Water Room

How is Pier 15 heated and cooled by Bay water, without using fossil fuels? Get the inside story with Exploratorium Building Operations Manager Chuck Mignacco. Limited capacity; first come, first served.

Ongoing:

Chocolate
By Tyler Hurd
6:30-9:30 p.m. | Osher Gallery 1

Tyler Hurd's VR music video experience using the song Chocolate by Giraffage sets you in a cat-centric world of sparkling colorful chrome with a tribe of people doing a ritualistic dance with you their robot god providing them with their precious resource, cute lil' chrome kitties.

BART Map for 2050
By Adam Susaneck
6:00-10:00 p.m. | Gallery 2

Imagine what your public transit future if every current proposal were funded and constructed by 2050.Adam Susaneck’s “best-case scenario” metro map consolidates the Bay Area’s existing transit and aggregates proposed, planned, and under-construction projects.

Making Pickles, Jerky, and Fruit Leather
With Jerrel KeyAuthor
6:30-9:30 p.m. | Gallery 2

The past is our future. Discover historic techniques for preserving meats, vegetables, and fish with Exploratorium Chef Jerrel B. KeyAuthor, and discuss ways to extend the shelf life of perishables at home.

History of Digital Storage
With the Explainers
6:30-9:30 p.m. | Gallery 2

Stroll through a digital storage hall of fame with the Explainers and investigate the different operations of these computer artifacts. Leave your thoughts on the future of digital storage by writing on our prediction wall.

Autonomous Vehicle Prototype
With Zoox
6:00-10:00 p.m. | Bechtel Gallery 3

Check out an autonomous vehicle and learn how it “sees” the world as it drives. Zoox is imagining, developing, and deploying its vehicles, software system, and ride-hailing service in one integrated platform.

Chimeras and Cancer
With Michelle Hermiston
6:30-9:30 p.m. | Gallery 4, Cells to Self

Learn how doctors and scientists are using the body’s immune system to fight cancer. Join UCSF's Dr. Michelle Hermiston to see how recent advances in immunotherapy are providing new options for patients with otherwise incurable cancers.

Zero Waste 2020
With San Francisco Department of the Environment
6:30-9:30 p.m. | Gallery 4

By 2020, San Francisco will send no waste to landfills or incineration. Meet with members of SF Environment to find out more about the city’s progress toward its goal, play zero waste games, and sign up for Clean Power SF.