Making Things Move #
Inspiration #
Simple movements can make objects seem very alive.
Jinhee Kim #
Artists working with robotics, mechanics and kinetic sculptures #
- Daniel Rozin
- Niklas Roy – Berlin-based artist working a lot with mechanical devices
- Teija ja Pekka Isorättyä – Finnish artist couple working with robotic installations
- Markus Copper
- Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen – Finnish artists working with kinetic sculptures
- Tim Hunkin – A engineer/artist who builds weird and elaborate machines. Also worked on making the Secret Life of Machines animation
- Jeppe Hein – Very minimalistic installations using kinetic elements
- ART+COM – A German design studio that specializes in creating big kinetic sculptures
- Ben Hopson – An industrial designer who has a lot of very interesting Kinetic Sketches on his website. Also this article about designing motion might be of interest to you.
- Theo Jansen – Amazing wind-powered artificial creatures
- Jie Qi – Some interesting projects using muscle wire, paper electronics
- Eunyoung Park – From Aalto Media Lab, her thesis project was LINKKI
Resources #
- Soft Robots
- Muscle Wire + Paper Electronics by Jie Qi
- Design with Movement by Eunyoung Park