Tag Archives: Kinetic Sculpture

Lynne Hull, Creating Tran-species Art and Sculpture for Wildlife

Environmental Artist and Sculpture:
I discovered Lynne’s work while doing some searching on Nature and Art recently. Her work is very in tune with working with the natural environment. Her work truly integrats with nature and the biological and animal interaction with it is intended.  A link to her website is at the bottom of this [...]

Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

Speed of Life
Studio notes from the contemporary painter Gregg Chadwick

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Shahzia Sikander on the Practice of Art

In this exchange between Shahzia Sikander and Art:21 on the nature of art practice, the conversation touches on the place of spirituality in contemporary art. Art:21 defines spirituality as follows:
Spirituality
A [...]

David Rokeby

Cloud, kinetic installation, 2007
Image copied from homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/
David Rokeby is one of the pioneers of interactive art.  His works explore digital surveillance, artificial perception systems, and kinetic sculpture.
Links:
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/cloud.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rokeby
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.03/rokeby.html

Arthur Ganson

Thinking Chair
2007 painted wood/mixed media, 26×30×30″
Image copied from www.arthurganson.com; click here for video
Arthur Ganson, self-described combo of “mechanical engineer and choreographer” creates intricate kinetic sculpture (incidentally, he also invented the children’s toy Toobers & Zots).  In the work above, Thinking Chair, the machine slowly walks the yellow chair around the top of the stone.
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Ken Feingold

The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything
2004 silicone, fiberglass, steel, software, electronics, computers, approx. 48×60×60″
Image copied from www.kenfeingold.com; click here for video
Ken Feingold makes interactive, computer-controlled animatronic sculpture and installations.  His recent work features animatronic heads that carry on conversations which are neither completely scripted or totally random, but somewhere between.  In Feingold’s words “the software [...]