Community | February 07, 2010 | 3 comments

Sound, Lights, Robots Invade London’s Kinetica

source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/02/kinetica-art-fair/#ixzz0euCEUS8Q

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Geek artists are taking it to hilt this weekend in a massive concrete bunker where London’s Kinetica Art Fair is holding its second annual robot-palooza. There, one artist tattooed his calves with sound-wave patterns. Another rejiggered Leonardo DaVinci’s drawing contraption as a robot-powered 3-D scanner.

And a science-minded design collective created a musical installation from sound waves believed to be produced during the Big Bang. For entertainment, the Robotic Theremin Ensemble — three robots and one human — saw away on the eerie-sounding instruments.

Running through Sunday at the Ambika P3 venue, Kinetica Art Fair 2010’s four-day exhibition of digital whizbangery is expected to draw 10,000 attendees. Among the 150 new media experiments on display: Waves. Paul Friedlander’s installation (pictured above) relies on the artist’s “Chromastrobic” waveforms to produce a spiraling fountain of light



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