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“We are in the finishing stages of building Audience, a new installation that will premiere on September 12th, 2008 at Wayne McGregor’s Deloitte Ignite Festival at the Royal Opera House in London. As a complement to the installation, McGregor has choreographed a short piece. For the development of the interactive aspects [...]

“Roca presents Waterdrop at 100% Design London. A spectacular and engaging experience capturing the beauty of water, designed by Héctor Serrano Studio.
Waterdrop invites us to enjoy and explore water without even using a drop, thereby representing Roca’s fundamental belief that innovation and sustainability can go hand in hand.
The central piece is a representation of the [...]

Berlin based Art+Com have created a beautiful & poetic kinetic sculpture for the new BMW Museum in Munich.
“The mechatronic installation made up of 714 metal balls translates a virtual design process into the space around it. Seemingly weightless and guided solely by the power of the mind, the sculpture moves through a cycle of free [...]

Hugh Hart first told me about Mojo in March 2007. The work is a robot light installation by Christian Moeller that shines a spotlight on passers by in San Pedro.
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“Before the wall came down between East and West Germany, if you walked in the forest near the border, you might find yourself in [...]

4 years ago I saw a great 3d animation called Pipe Dream, part of a DVD of animations called Animusic. Music played by robots, in particular Pipe Dreams was played by very co-ordinated bouncing balls. I recommend you watch it here. The creators never claimed this to be real, but some prankster did.
Well [...]

[update] Here is a video by Gaz Cobain showing some of the works. Show open until 5th May 2007.
I’ve been a regular visitor to the Kinetica Museum in London since it’s opening. One of the things I always really liked were the automata donation boxes. For this reason I attended the Cabaret Mechnical Theatre [...]

I wanted to post info on this now in case any readers are in the area, as I won’t get chance to see it until for little a while.
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Feb 9th - 29th April, Free Entry
“Danish artist Jeppe Hein, known for his playful and interactive installations, is the latest contemporary artist to be [...]

Yesterday I went to the Luminaries and Visionaries exhibition at Kinetica Museum in London, open until 11th March. Here are my photos.
Of the work on display, my favorite was the 3d zoetrope by Gregory Barsamian, and the Ambiguous Icons led works of Jim Campbell. Artists also include Sam Buxton, Rob & Nick Carter, [...]