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.
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Applied Kinetic Arts 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.
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. On this website you will find RSS streams from some of our members own blogs which will provide a peek into the studios and processes behind this unique approach to art making. Check the members section to learn about our contributors, see examples of their finished work, and find links to their personal sites. Please feel free to post your comments and help spread the word about us. It is your interest and support that make it possible for artists like us to find an audience and shape the future of contemporary art. This website does not seek profit from sales. Please contact artists directly if you are interested in purchasing or showing their work.
Assemblage Robot
Tal Avitzur
Assemblage Robot Sculpture from Scrap Metal
Benjamin Cowden
Twenty Seven Gears
Benjamin Cowden creates mechanical sculpture using quirky movements to explore the world around us. Inventing mechanisms that move in pseudo-random and semi-organic ways, Mr. Cowden's work is both playful and introspective.
CigarBox Cinema
Mark Galt
A short subject photo-play is observed by listening to the headphones and looking into the cigar box through a viewer.
Head Case #2
Nemo Gould
Many of Nemo's sculptures begin with seeing some sort of character in a found object. In this case he chose not to build out a single character from a single face, but rather to see how many faces he could squeeze into one piece.
Kinetic Art Work
Almost Scientific
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
RoboFlower
Aaron Geman
Straight from the lab, this GMO flower allows you to appreciate its bloom over and over again.
Robot Sculptures Made from Scrap Metal
Tal Avitzur
Sensor Objects
Jonathan Foote
Sensor Objects react visibly to environmental sensor inputs. They serve to display imperceptible environmental conditions as well as being sculptural objects in their own right.
