Science Buzz Cafe: Ned Kahn and the Texture of Emptiness

Ned Kahn, a Sebastopol-based environmental artist, will show videos of his early works at the Exploratorium and some recent projects and discuss how his kinetic artworks relate to recent discoveries about the Higgs Field and the nature of empty space. He will also show a video of his recently installed sculpture along the Laguna in Sebastopol. Ned Kahn’s work with Frank Oppenheimer, the founder of the Exploratorium and younger brother of J Robert Oppenheimer, inspired him to develop artworks intended to reveal the underlying physics of many natural phenomena. Two recurring themes in his work are how energy waves flow through fields and how vibration often requires a restoring force.