Tag: kinetic

David C. Roy

Kinetic Sculptures by David C Roy

Since graduating in 1974 from Boston University with a degree in physics, artist David C. Roy has been fascinated by the motion and mechanics of kinetic sculptures. Roy is a self-taught woodworker who designs limited edition wall-mounted sculptures powered by various mechanical wind-up mechanisms without the aid of electricity. Each piece can run for about 5-18 hours unassisted on a single wind, with his latest piece Dimensions capable of whirling around for a whopping 40+ hours.

From his Connecticut studio Roy has produced over 150 one-of-a-kind designs over the last thirty years, many of which he currently sells as editions through his website. Visit his site to see the archive of past works and the current works for sale:  http://woodthatworks.squarespace.com

Breaking Waves

Hypersonic and Plebeian Design, “Breaking Wave”, Biogen Idec Headquarters

To create its monumental, generative sculptures and installations, New York City-based design studio Hypersonic has collaborated with robotics firms including Amorphic Robotic Works, theoretical physicists like Janna Levin, and tech-art studio Sosolimited. Its work with the latter studio and Plebian Design, for example, led to the creation of Patterned By Nature a giant, ribbon-like hanging sculpture of LCD glass tiles that snakes its way down five stories of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Research Center.

For their most recent project, Breaking Wave, Hypersonic once again teamed up with Plebian Design to create a standalone system of 804 orange spheres which rise and fall in a concerted visual representation of how, within the perceived chaos of data sets, natural patterns eventually reveal themselves.

Like Patterned By Nature before it, Breaking Wave adheres to a set of qualities common throughout Hypersonic’s history of tech-monuments: it’s a sculpture whose activity is autonomous and follows patterns programmed from sets of data derived from nature. Housed in the lobby of world-class biotechnology company Biogen-Idec’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it stands as the all-engrossing centerpiece of the biotechnology-leading institution.

If you’d like to visit in person, Breaking Wave runs Monday through Friday, 8am to 8pm at 255 Binney St. in Cambridge, MA. The sculpture is viewable from the street, or from inside the lobby.

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U Ram Choe

 

Kinetic Sculptures by U Ram Choe, South Korean Sculptor

Inspired by the grandeur of the physical realm, from celestial bodies to earthly organisms, U-ram Choe’s complex kinetic sculptures combine delicate, otherworldly beauty with machines. Choe’s shiny biomorphic forms flutter, glow, and breathe inside their metallic bodies, appearing both familiar and entirely alien.

Choe uses various metals, motors, gears, and custom CPU boards to control the precise motions of each sculpture that are at times perfectly synchronized and other times completely random. With names like “Unicus – Cavum ad Initium” and “Arbor Deus Pennatus”, it’s clear the artist treats each new work like a brand new species.

U Ram Choe

 

, Kinetic Sculptures, John Curtin Gallery, Australia, April 2012

In his first solo exhibition in Australia, U-Ram Choe from Korea presents his extraordinary kinetic sculptures, charting a path between art, science and cybernetic technologies. Finely engineered stainless steel, aluminium, and acrylic ‘bones’ provide the skeletal scaffolding for the ‘brains and muscles’ – CPUs and motors – which are assembled into captivating forms reminiscent of otherworldly flora and fauna, inviting the audience to imagine the evolution of life forms into the future.

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Peter Jansen

Peter Jansen, Kinetic Sculptures

English photographer Eadweard Muybridge became a pioneer of capturing movement when he took position on a popularly-debated question of the day: his photographic sequences proved that all four feet of a horse were inexplicably off the ground at the same time while trotting. Late Dutch artist Peter Jansen took on a similar study when he began his series of dynamic sculptures titled “Human Motions”. The project observes the dynamism of the human figure in motion and the visual magic that occurs when we slow things down, frame by frame.

Jansen’s art work is in fact entirely real, created using Materialise.MGX, a method employing 3D printing and rapid manufacturing techniques such as stereo-lithography. Soccer players, runners, and the classical nude, a nod to Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.”, are portrayed in trailing sequences of movement expressed in a single sculptural image.

Jansen explained that his work is based on his ideas about transposition and movement, using the shapes of the human body to create energetic spaces. “I was curious how the total shape of a human in motion in time would be,” he explained.

Kinetic Sculpture “Octo 3″ by Anthony Howe

 

Art in Movement: Kinetic Sculpture “Octo 3″ by Anthony Howe, Stainless Steel, 25 Feet High, 30 Feet in Diameter.

Anthony Howe (born 1954, Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. He makes use of computer-aided design, shaping the metal components with a plasma cutter, and completing his work by use of traditional metalworking techniques. “Multiple axis finely balanced forms, both symmetrical and asymmetrical, conspire to create a visually satisfying three-dimensional harmony.”

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