A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Applied Kinetic Arts (A.K.A.) is a community of artists working within the medium loosely defined as “kinetic”. Works incorporating motion, light, sound, and interactivity are represented by the group’s ever expanding member base. A.K.A. was founded in 2007 by artists Christopher T. Palmer and Nemo Gould with the intention of raising public awareness of this art form and providing a support network for its members, and others working within the genre.
Benjamin Cowden began working with metal during an undergraduate anthropology project in Cameroon in 1997. He later worked as a blacksmith, creating utilitarian objects and furniture. Fascinated with mechanical movement, Benjamin began making interactive sculpture in 2003. After receiving his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mr. Cowden moved to Oakland California, where he currently lives and works.
Almost Scientific
Alan Rorie
Almost Scientific is an artist and scientist whose work focuses on the intersection between science, art and education. He founded Almost Scientific, a science and art collaborative, after someone told him his method of producing art was “very scientific.” “I know how science works,” he replied. “This isn’t scientific–it’s almost scientific.” Since then, Almost Scientific has educated scientists about art and artists about science, helping to bring forth such works as gigantic interactive treehouses, large sets of functional brass apertures, fully functional, steam-powered time machines, alien observation tanks housing 9000-volt robotic neurons, and plasma powered rocket ships.
Electromechanical works by Jonathan Foote
Jonathan Foote
Several interactive electromechanical works, including the Rotation Simulator and World Upside Down optical reverser. Part of the Applied Kinetic Arts exhibition
Marko Arts
Mark Galt
Kinetic art in metals, with an emphasis on mechanical studies of the human figure in motion.
Pentagonal Wave
Reuben Margolin
The Pentagonal Wave is an overhead kinetic sculpture containing 288 strings, cardboard tubes, and one electric motor.
Po-Bot
Nemo Gould
Po-Bot is a kinetic sculpture made entirely from found materials. This coin operated character is a self portrait of sorts, depicting the artist as beggar.
RimShotBot
Christopher Palmer
RimShotBot is a kinetic art piece that speaks a joke punchline and then gives itself a rimshot.
Two Things that I Built
Aaron Geman
Art that moves. You know, to like uh, enrich your environment. And make you contemplate stuff.
Typewriter Sculpture
Jeremy Mayer
Showing sculpture made from typewriter parts. Showing with Applied Kinetic Arts.
