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.
Dr. Alan Rorie is a designer, 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 working 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. Alan’s individual and collaborative works have been shown at venues as diverse as The Sonoma County Museum, The Exploratorium, Maker Faire, Coachella Music Festival, the Crucible&'s Fire Arts Festival, The Science Gallery's Lightwave Event, the Edwardian Ball and Burning Man. His art has been featured in the science journal Nature, the technology and culture publication Wired, and a wide array of blogs and web-pages. And, his scientific work has been published in Science, PLoS and The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Benjamin Cowden
Benjamin Cowden
An interactive mechanical sculpture that plays with themes of human experience and found objects. These explorations of movement incorporate sound, pseudo-random gearing, and 3-D movement into complex devices that visitors can operate.
Completely Awesome Robotic Desklamp Experiment
Jonathan Foote
Robotic desklamps, remotely controlled and synchronized, with high-intensity color LED illumination.
Higher
Benjamin Carpenter
Higher is a kinetic sculpture, made from a series of thoughts regarding humanity's eager compulsion to progress. It is a meditation on the history of our technology, how we interface with it and what path it might lead us down in the future.
Homunculus
Nemo Gould
This sculpture explores a theme I often return to: Robots within Robots!
In this case, as with all my sculptures, the piece is made entirely from found and salvaged parts from second hand stores and landfills.
Kinetic Bug Jars
Colleen Paz
The natural world is mysteriously mimicked in this series of kinetic sculptures. Simple electronic components animate paper insects trapped inside of bottles and jars.
Kinetic Sculpture
Christopher Palmer
Christopher "CTP" Palmer is a kinetic sculptor and co-founder of Applied Kinetic Arts.
Mechanical Studies of the Human Figure in Motion
Mark Galt
These pieces are clockwork depictions of the human body in the act of walking. The machine elements of which the figures are sculpted, gears, cams, cranks, and levers, are the components that create the distinctive gaits of the male and female figures.
The Uira Engine
Almost Scientific
The Uira Engine exists at the boundary of art a science. It is simultaneously a sculpture and experiment, an exploration of science fiction and fact.
Typewriter Assemblage
Jeremy Mayer
Jeremy makes full-scale human figures from typewriter parts. He doesn't solder, weld, or glue these assemblages; he reassembles the parts using only the components and mechanical processes indigenous to the typewriter. By turning these machines inside-out and taking all the components out of their original context, he hopes to show how the designers of typewriters drew from the human body and nature.
