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Kinetics Links
(update in progress July 2007)
KMODDL - Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library
"KMODDL is a collection of mechanical models and related resources for teaching the principles of kinematics--the geometry of pure motion. The core of KMODDL is the Reuleaux Collection of Mechanisms and Machines, an important collection of 19th-century machine elements held by Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering."
"Hundreds of tiny carved figures and pieces of old scrap perform an incredible Heath-Robinson-meets-Hieronymous-Bosch choreography to haunting music and synchronised lighting, telling the funny and tragic stories of the struggle of the human spirit against the relentless circles of life and death."
Fourteen Balls Toy Company
"The Fourteen Balls Toy Co. began in June 1986 and has been making automata ever since. The company consists of Paul Spooner who designs the majority of the automata, Matt Smith who co-designs and produces all the models and Sarah Smith (Matt's wife) who has been doing the bulk of the painting for the past few years.
We originally started to produce automata together to supply The Cabaret Mechanical Theatre which had just moved to covent garden in London and we are still producing two or three new designs a year."
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
"A collection of contemporary automata, which is a kind of mechanical sculpture. Nearly all of the work in the theatre is humourous. As well as the smaller machines in the theatre there are about 20 coin-operated, larger scale pieces.
It is also a shop selling handmade automata, mechanical wooden kits and card cutouts, books and videos. We sell via mail order and the internet to customers all over the world."
Among the many artists who have exhibited at CMT are:
Paul Spooner - The demigod of modern automata...go look at The Fourteen Balls Toy Company if you don't believe me!
Tim Hunkin - All around renaissance genius...cartoonist, engineer, TV presenter, author, artist, and much more.
Will Jackson - Another all around the genres kind of brilliant guy.
Keith Newstead - Very fun, and beatifully crafted automata, and a great designer.
Jean Tinguley
The godfather of all things kineticly artful
Marcel Duchamp
"If Tinguley was the godfather, Duchamp was the Pope" (I don't remember who said this orginally...it might have been me)
Arthur Ganson
Incredible...awesome...genius. One of my all time favorite artists in any genre.
Chuck Genco
"My pieces often purport to be something other than what they are. The viewer is drawn in by familiar objects and materials and is then presented with an unexpected result. Many of my works are intended to look manufactured, or are, in fact, modified manufactured items. Towards this end I have appropriated the look and feel of an industrial furnace, the style of 19th Century scientific instruments, the modernist architecture of the Whitney Museum, and the modest everyday character of matchboxes and carpenter's rulers. Overlaid on these associations is an affinity for arcade machines and toys, playful references that reinforce familiarity. My attempt is to establish a familiar, seamless facade that subverts expectation. "
Kugelbahn - Rolling Ball Sculpture
"This website is devoted to the subject of Rolling Ball Sculptures, curious machines, mechanical sculptures, automata and other 'moving' art, generally known as kinetic art."
Art-O-Mat
"What is an Art*o*mat? Art*o*mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been reformed and restored into original art vending machines. Currently, there are 49 active machines in museums and various locations throughout the country.
What do you get from an Art*o*mat? The experience of pulling the knob alone is quite a thrill, but you also walk away with an original work of art! Ker-plunk! What an easy (and inexpensive) way to become an art collector. "
Don't go around artless!
And now, a veritable cornucopia of kinetic art links...
- .fernando
- Alan Rath
- Alan Rath at Solway Gallery
- Amorphic Robot Works Machines
- Amy Youngs - interactive sculptures, installations and other art work
- Art and Emerging Technology
- ART TEC - Guy Marsden's home page
- Charles Morgan
- Consensual Data Body
- The Crucible
- Devices of Wonder at The Getty
- Ed Osborn - sound art
- Edward A. Shanken
- NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
- Jack Dollhausen's Shop
- Ken Rinaldo - robotic sculpture, interactive art inspired by natural systems
- David C. Roy
- Gary Goddard
- Keith Newstead
- Koolkinetics.com
- Kinetic-Art.org
- Kineticus.com
- Luke Blackstone
- Marc Bohlen
- Matthew Steinke
- Mechanical Burlesque
- The Modern Automata Museum
- Ned Kahn
- Ned Kahn at Sculpture.org
- Nemo Gould
- Norman Tuck Interactive Kinetic Sculpture, Science and Art Exhibits
- Omnicircus
- Perry Hoberman
- Rafelandia
- Rein Triefeldt
- Robochrist
- Rodney Brooks - Projects
- S T E L A R C
- Sabrina Raaf
- Seemen
- Sineapsis Experiments
- Steve Gerberich Mechanical Sculptor
- Strandbeest
- Survival Research Labs
- Sympathetic Sentience
- Michael Sturtz
- Tim Prentice
- Michael Lozano
- Omnicircus
- Ylem Art, Science, and Technology
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