Invisible Dynamics
Common Systems of the Bay Area/Pacific Rim

From the Exploratorium

Invisible Dynamics, a new Exploratorium project, examines the contemporary world as a series of expanding information systems, engaging artists and scientists to explore the world at a detail and at scales never accomplished before. The focus is far beyond the walls of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco, harnessing the web and cutting edge tracking and imaging technology, to uncover, map, research and investigate the urban and natural systems and behaviors that give the San Francisco Bay Area its special character. The purpose of the work of each artist/scientist team is to reveal and layer systems – the constant and ephemeral, the unseen and idiosyncratic multi-phenomena – which are often hidden, but otherwise interlaced in our experience of the places where we live and work. Invisible Dynamics is also building a global view by comparing the ways in which the SF Bay region is a microcosm of the Pacific Rim.