Vince's Parallax: Kinetic Art

[1] Introduction: What is Kinetic Art?

A work of art that has movement or parts that are set in motion. The movement may be real or imagined. Movement may be mechanically powered (for example, by electricity, or air or water motion), or produced by the viewer moving past a work, or the work given the illusion of movement, such as op art, which appears to flicker. Kinetic art sometimes merges with other types of avant-garde art, including performance art, computer-generated art, mixed media, and Installation art. Leading kinetic artists include Alexander Calder, Bridget Riley, and Nam June Paik.

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Google News Feed: Kinetic Art - if you have an RSS news reader program you can paste in this link to get the latest stories in this field.

About Rolling Balls & 'Moving' Art - Online exhibition and information on Rolling Ball Sculptures, mechanical sculptures and kinetic art.

Amorphic Robot Works - ARW is a group of artists and engineers creating interactive sculptural machine performances.

Animated objects - an introduction to the kinetic art of Paul Walboom.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - Museum of automata (mechanical sculpture). Covent Garden, London. 70+ humorous machines come to life at touch of button. Handmade automata, videos, kits, card cutouts. Visit for free ticket, pictures & animations.

Classification of Physical Processes for Virtual Kinetic Art by A. Dorin. "This paper presents a formal means of classifying physical processes for virtual and physical kinetic art. From such a taxonomy may be derived a language for artistic expression." PDF format - you will need Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader to read the file.

Clayton Whitehouse , kinetic artist.

Database of Kinetic Art - Kineticus is devoted to the subject of kinetic art. The web site gets permanently updated by its members, linked artists and guests. Contact information included. In English and German.

Evidence by Rebecca A. Barrington - Performance documenting December 25, 2000 including Christmas and the Solar Eclipse with snow graffiti.

Figurative Kinetic Sculpture by Steve Stackpole - Unique figurative wood and metal kinetic sculpture influenced by automata, folk art and a lifelong love of mechanics.

Futurelic - Robotic organisms and animatronic interfaces for technomyths. Photos and contact information included.

Information Please: Kinetic Art - Definition of the term.

Kimon Fotiadis - Creator of kinetic art, design, installations, performances and software applications.

Kinetic Art Organization (site could be down at present - 13th Dec 2007)

Kinetic artist Clayton Whitehouse - Photos of the artist's kinetic art and sculpture, profile and contact information. Located in Islamorada, Florida.

Kinetic Synaesthesia: Experiencing Dance in Multimedia Scenographies by Marc Boucher

Kinetica - the first museum in the UK to specialise in kinetic and experimental art. Spitalfields, London. The web site has sections on robotic art, video art, sound art and kinetic art. Admission to the museum is free. Closed Monday.

Motoman Project - A machine/robot performance based experiment dedicated to the expansion of creativity through the exploration of human imagination. A collaboration of work by machine artists, kinetic sculptors, and audio and video technicians.

Seemen - Collaborative exploration of the dark side of applied engineering in interactive robotic and kinetic art.

Steinke, Matthew - Uses kinetic and sound sculpture to portray biological and social dysfunction while seeking to debunk mythologies of progress.

Survival Research Laboratories - Performance art project employing a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire.

Tate Gallery Glossary - Kinetic Art - an explanation and some examples.

The Neurology of Kinetic Art

Wikipedia Page on Kinetic Art

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