All Blog Posts Tagged 'kinetic' (6)

British artist, physicist, and all-around science enthusiast Paul Friedlander produces kinetic light sculptures that provide a colorful feast for the eyes. Each piece in his body of work offers a visual medley of light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The vibrating rope becomes invisible to the human eye, but colors from the light…

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New York-based artist Daniel Rozin has created a series of kinetic sculptures that move according to an algorithm; however, the motorized structures also respond to outside interaction. His interactive installations, titled Angles Mirror and Fan Mirror, each serve as…

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It's hard not to fall into a hypnotic trance while staring at art student Yasutoki Kariya's installation titled Asobi. The kinetic structure, whose name translates as "play" in Japanese, features a transference of light and motion from one end of a series of light bulbs to the other, á la Newton's…

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If you're looking for a DIY project that's not only fun but educational, you may want to back this Kickstarter project. Alyssa Hamel just emailed us telling us about Kinetic Creatures, a set of three cardboard animal sculptures that actually walk! You have to watch…

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LA, it's almost time. We just got word from LACMA that Chris Burden's epic racetrack sculpture will be make its press debut on Wednesday, January 11, and its public one on January 14. Called Metropolis II, it's a complex, large-scale kinetic structure that's modeled after a fast-faced modern city. Soon we'll all be able to witness 1,100 Hot Wheel-sized cars zip…

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Nadine Grenier, a student at ESAD Strasbourg, made this kinetic installation. It is made of 500 clocksworks and every 12 hours you can read: “le temps passe, et chaque fois qu’il y a du temps passe, il y a quelque chose qui s’efface”, which roughly translates in “Time passes, and every time the time passes, there is something that… Continue