Visible Light

Sam Sharkland is a Senior Program Developer at the Exploratorium with over 15 years of experience in curation, film exhibition, and event production. They aspire to cultivate communal experiences that broaden perspectives and challenge perceptions. In addition to curating short film programs for adult and family audiences, Sharkland co-produces expanded cinema events and leads experimental cinema education programs for teen and university level groups. Sharkland holds a BA in Media Studies from the University of San Francisco.

Liz Keim is the Director of Cinema Arts and Senior Curator at the Exploratorium. She founded the Cinema Arts Program and film collection in 1983 focused on the transformative nature of film at the intersection of the arts and sciences. She is published in Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theaters, a collection of literary essays on the city’s cinema culture, and her film In the Red has screened internationally. Keim co-taught film courses at the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute, has served on many local film juries, and has curated numerous cinema programs internationally.

Kathleen Maguire is the Manager of Public Programs at the Exploratorium, where she designs science and arts-based programming for intergenerational audiences and works closely with artists to craft performances, artworks, and engagement. Her projects at the Exploratorium include Glow, which explored large-scale light art and Field of View: Mapping Emerging Technologies, a series of temporal engagements examining cutting-edge use of immersive technologies in science and the arts. She previously worked at the American Museum of Natural History and is a graduate of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program.