In a clear case of art imitating my life, this is a video from the Perrotin Gallery in Los Angeles of a kinetic wooden sculpture created by artist Barry McGee repeatedly banging its head against the wall. We’ve all been there. I’m there right now. I don’t do this sort
This is a video of engineer and tinkerer JBV Creative constructing ‘The Corporate Machine’, a piece of kinetic wall art for his apartment that represents the tireless churning of big business. Using 99% 3D-printed parts, the machine launches ping-pong balls and catches them, repeating the process indefinitely until a power
I’m sure by now you’re all familiar with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, right? Giant kinetic moving sculptures that convert wind energy into movement, usually in the form of tens of walking legs? Well now Theo has introduced Strandbeest Evolution 2021, a new line of beests, some of which can take to
This is artist Neil Mendoza’s ‘The Fragility Of Complexity’, a kinetic sculpture that consists of a series of rotating hammers that just barely miss breaking light bulbs as the the circle around their axis, the light bulbs swinging perfectly in between the hammer’s head and grip as they pass. Per
This is a video demonstration and up-close look at the mechanism of the beautiful hand-cranked (motor optional) kinetic sculpture created by artist Ross McSweeney featuring a little row boat bobbing up and down on waves that move vertically both left to right AND front to back. Plus there are a