Kinetica Artfair

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Kinetica would like to thank everyone for visiting Kinetica Art Fair 2013.

Kinetica Art Fair 2013 received a record number of visitors and had exhibitor participation from the UK, Brazil, Russia, Poland, USA, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Indonesia and Israel.

The fair in a short number of years has become a landmark event on the Art Fair calendar, and is the only fair of its kind in the UK to provide an international platform for kinetic, electronic and new media art.

Previews and reviews of Kinetica Art Fair 2013 are on The Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The Times, Artlyst, New Scientist and Flickr.

See also Creators Project for video interviews with artists, including Gregory Barsamian and Light Artists at Kinetica Art Fair 2013.

Click here to see another video of Kinetica Art Fair by Tom Bell.

Posted on Tue, 2 Apr 2013
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Exhibitors #10: Alex Allmont

After having taken part in the previous edition, Oxford graduate Alex Allmont returns back to the Ambika P3 for the KAF 2013.

Playing with the universal familiarity of LEGO toys, his work challenges LEGO’s gear constraints with a high degree of skill and inventiveness. Instantaneously accessible to a wide audience, his complex combinations of kinetic sculptures and sonic art explore the dynamics of perception through rhythm, influencing the pace of the onlooker’s analysis of a piece.

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Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2013
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Exhibitors #9: Aether & Hemera

After having invited Canary Wharf passers-by to a journey out of reality through memories and imagination with their last publicly acclaimed mobile phone-interactive installation Voyage (see image above), Italian duo Aether & Hemera are one of the most popular new entries amongst our exhibitors. Predominantly producing site-specific installations, their aim is to explore the potential of light as a tool for shaping spaces and emotions through the filter of human perception.

Featuring in the fair with The Heart Bit Lamp (an interactive lamp with a touch-responsive interface), this time their art won’t only aim at shaping the visitor’s feelings but will literally display them, reproducing their heartbeat with light effects.

Get in touch with your emotions at the KAF 2013!
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Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2013
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Exhibitors #8: Jonty Hurwitz

Whilst the general public will probably remember him as the co-founder of Wonga.com, we at Kinetica like to host him as the artist of the Binge Thinking Collection, a series of breath-taking artworks created from 2007 to date. When Leonardo’s anamorphic drawings meet the ancient technique of trompe l’œil and the pair are fused into fine mathematical calculations and cutting-edge technology the result is a Hurwitz’s mind-blowing sculpture.

Amongst others, at the fair you will be able to admire The Hurwitz Singularity, which derives from a precise calculation of a four-dimensional scan of the artist’s head. Standing out as an emblem of a physically and mentally split subject, the artwork hints at a double reading: whilst in reality it can only be recomposed through a specific viewpoint, the intellectual lens through which it can be reconstructed in abstraction is Freudian modus pensandi.

Come and find out the visual appearance of calculations at the KAF 2013!
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Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2013
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Exhibitor #7: Laurent Debraux

When not engaged in mathematical constants’ embroideries (PI+E, 2011) Paris-based artist Laurent Debraux produces sculptures pooled by the presence of a driving (magnetic) force which seems to address the primeval issue of all Programmed Art: to what extent does it produce randomness?

Echoing earlier pioneering Programmed Art works like those of Italian artist Davide Boriani, Debraux’s kinetic sculptures such as Fleur Magnetique (Magnetic Flower, 2010) and La Marche De L’Oursin (The March of the Sea Urchin, 2010, see the image above) reveal through a plexiglass case their formerly hidden principles.

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Posted on Tue, 26 Feb 2013
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Exibitor #6: Leonardo Ulian

Recently featured in the Art Projects section of the London Art Fair, Ulian’s work deals with the issue of creation after destruction, re-contextualising the use of electronic circuits and generating new meanings.

What the onlooker is left with is an ordered maze of transistors and capacitors, a highly decorative work which self-projects beyond pure ornament to a cosmos where ancient symbols of Buddhist meditation and highly technological gizmos which aid current communications meet in a silent but meaningful ensemble.

For instance, the double nature of transistors (interrupting communications if acting as a switch but commonly used as amplifiers) heightens this sensation of witnessing the loudly silent contact they engender, triggering our imagery with their inspirational ethereality.

Meditate to come and switch your day on at the KAF 2013!
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Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2013
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Exhibitor #5: Alexander Berchert

Do ready-made objects have a creative potential?
Starting from this Duchampian question, the work of Alexander Berchert explores the current loss in the knowledge of fixing in our culture, that teaches us to replace a broken item with a shiny new one asap.

Of course, the logic of consumerism is widely known and well investigated, and Berchert’s work, stands no as a mere commentary, but is a creative and proactive contribution. By submitting artworks which are made of new, recycled and restored objects, he chooses to celebrate both their original aesthetic and that of their reconfiguration in a new unity.

Discover the creative force of the ordinary at the KAF 2013!
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Posted on Wed, 6 Feb 2013
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Exhibitor #4: Anouk Wipprecht

Through her work in the emerging field of fashiontech (fashionable technology), this Dutch artist and designer suggests technology can enhance our sensory perception of wearing clothes, complementing such a primitive human tendency.

Technology seems to represent, therefore, a useful aid to mankind, contrary to the indomitable and rebellious prosthetics that it constituted for Freud. Moreover, the second-skin technology promoted by Wipprecht appears to be conceived as a natural feature of the future body, whilst at the height of Modernism (as well described by art historian Hal Foster in his Prosthetic Gods), technology determined the separation between natural and post-natural bodies.

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Posted on Wed, 6 Feb 2013
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Exhibitor #3: XiaoFei Dyson

For those of you who came to the 2012 Kinetica Art Fair, the aforementioned name will definitely sound familiar. For the newcomers, if it does not ring a bell, the following paragraphs may be of help.

Chinese artist XiaoFei Dyson produces challenges rather than artworks.
Ever felt sceptical about your ability to identify with concept artists? Dyson is sure to help you revise your opinions. Who didn’t love to take things apart as a child?

The main difference is that you have stopped since and he didn’t. Most importantly, you didn’t have a clue on how to fix the disassembled objects back and he did, prior to witnessing their effective functionality.

This process of dismantling and reassembling objects later triggered his artistic ethos, and, whilst investigating the influence that human inventions had on the development of Kinetic Art, he wants to attract his public into an interactive critical dialogue. Curiously stimulating, his sculptures aim to entertain adults and provoke questions to their kids.

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Posted on Wed, 6 Feb 2013
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Exhibitor #2: Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

How many of us understand algorithms?
Engineers, mathematicians, scientists apart; for all the other mere mortals, let’s face it: they are too complicated and we won’t use them in daily life, let alone find them in a concrete form.

Goldsmiths researcher Matthew Plummer-Fernandez offers us a perspective by producing everyday objects distorted by algorithms (i.e. through a mathematical repositioning of their set of coordinates). Created with a customised open source platform, the digital objects are brought to life through the use of a 3D printer with colour resin. If, on the one hand, the digital realm is more and more used to accurately reproduce reality (what the Greeks called mīmēsis), on the other artists like Plummer-Fernandez are showing to what extent it could be also a tool to create new, parallel or distorted realities.

Experience the unrecognizable everyday at the KAF 2013!
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Posted on Wed, 6 Feb 2013
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