Below I've included a wonderful Ted conference video that features the eclectic kinetic sculptures of Arthur Ganson who considers himself both a mechanical engineer and a choreographer. The video is 15-minutes long and I encourage readers to watch the entire presentation, which consists of highlights from a speech he gave in 2002.
In this video, Ganson shares some of his many creations from children's flip-books and fragile moving machines to racing sculptures and self-cleaning machines that bathe themselves in oil. Building kinetic sculptures is for Ganson the perfect blend of the physicality of precise hand movements and the exploration of the logical flow of energy through a system.
The last section of this presentations features what Ganson calls a gestural dance between a machine and a chair:
And I've included below YouTube videos that highlight some of his kinetic work:
Wishbone
Self-Lubricating Machine
Little Yellow Chair
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Doug Fox on May 29, 2008 4:00 AM
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