https://vimeo.com/454239749 Condenser microphones, speakers, servomotors, iron Feeding is a sound installation work. There are eight units in the space. Each unit consists of a metal sculpture of a fishing rod, a condenser microphone, a speaker and a volume sensor. When the volume is too low, the string will relax so that the microphone will drop... Continue Reading →
Jller by Prokop Bartoníček and Benjamin Maus
Jller is part of an ongoing research project in the fields of industrial automation and historical geology. It is an apparatus that sorts pebbles from a specific river by their geologic age. A set of pebbles are placed on the 2×4 meter platform of the machine, which automatically analyzes the stones. The sorting process happens in... Continue Reading →
Clock Clock by Human Since 1982
This 50-inch-long digital timepiece is made up of 24 individual analog clocks. Each bank of six clocks forms an individual number in the seven-segment system, creating what is essentially a hacked-together digital display made out of analog parts. The piece “re-contextualizes time in a mix of old and new, analogue and digital,” explain Emanuelsson and... Continue Reading →
One Kind of Behavior by Shyu Ruey-Shiann
http://youtu.be/1VSWFzwovAE Shyu Ruey-Shiann’s kinetic installation One Kind of Behavior at Bronx Museum of Arts May 1 - Aug 17, 2014. With dozens of same-sized steel buckets scattered on the floor, One Kind of Behavior will transform the spacious terrace into a vibrant, playful and intriguing landscape. "Upon entering the terrace, one's auditory perception is immediately... Continue Reading →
Trace by HC Gilje
http://vimeo.com/74304110 "Created by HC Gilje and commissioned for LIAF 2013, Trace is a light-motion installation presented at the recent festival Lofoten Art Festival. LIAF 2013 takes its international participants and audiences to unusual sites such as a garage, a library, a shed, a hotel, a cinema, an Am-Car club, a residential house, a former shop,... Continue Reading →
Bálint Bolygó drawing machines
Interesting kinetic drawing mechanisms. http://www.balintbolygo.com His website has very low-quality videos, look on YouTube instead: https://www.youtube.com/user/balintbolygo/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLH9CBzZq40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9zpWTujXM
Julio Le Parc kinetic light installations
http://vimeo.com/66388648 "A precursor of kinetic art and Op Art, founding member of G.R.A.V. [Visual Art Research Group] and recipient of the Grand Prize for Painting at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966, Julio Le Parc (b. 1928 in Argentina, lives and works in Cachan) is a major figure of art history. The socially conscious artist... Continue Reading →
Peter Vogel sound circuit art
"Fascinated by the work of English neurophysiologist William Grey Walter (1910-77), who invented small robots (called Machine Speculatrix) that simulated basic neurophysiological behaviour, Vogel was intrigued to discover that, with the help of sound and light sensors, such machines could react to the world. Thus, at a time when many artists were pursuing the idea... Continue Reading →
United Visual Artists
"United Visual Artists (UVA) are an art and design practice based in London, creating work that lies at the intersections of sculpture, architecture, live performance and installation. The studio’s origins in design for live performance led to a sustained interest in spectacle, the relationship between passive and active participation, and the use of responsive systems... Continue Reading →
IRIS by HYBE
http://youtu.be/qhdG7OltXnU 2012. Expandable Matrix of Transmissive Monochrome LCD (90x90mm), Custom designed Arduino compatible controller board, DMX512, SPI, Kinect. IRIS is a unique media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology - a monochrome LCD. Through the phased opening and closing of circular-segmented black Liquid Crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount... Continue Reading →