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In July of 2010, I was notified that my video, Frenetic Kinetics!, was chosen by IFP Minnesota for inclusion in the 2010 MNTV Showcase to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television in December.
On July 29th, 2010, the 3864-stick stick bomb I detonated at the Science Museum of Minnesota on June 20th was accepted as an official Guinness World Record!
On July 10th, 2010, I set off a gadget at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. as part of an exhibition on movie pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. As part of the gadget, I had eight Muybridgeoscopes with animations taken from Muybridge's motion studies. Whoo, hoo!
On July 2nd, 2010, National Public Radio announced that my video, Frenetic Kinetics!, was selected as one of the top three winners of the NPR-Corcoran Muybridge Contest. It was a national contest for art created in the style of early movie pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. You can see the contest results or listen to the announcement on "All Things Considered" at NPR's website. It's more fun than a zoopraxiscope!
At around 1:30 PM on June 20th, 2010, I set off my latest world-record stick bomb in the Science Museum of Minnesota near the entrance to the exhibits. The new world record is an amazing 3,864 sticks! The audience loved it and you can see a Twitpic of the bomb in the middle of detonation here. The video of this event was broadcast on KARE-11's evening news program. I hope to have an official Guinness World Record claim soon. Until then, you can see pictures of the bomb before detonation.
On June 4th, 2010, I detonated my largest stick bomb to date in Saint Paul, Minnesota, as part of Lowertown's First Friday event. This xyloexplosive device was made with 3200 tongue depressors and a videographer from WCCO Channel 4 was present. Check out the video here. It's more fun than you can shake a stick at!
On March 11th, 2010, Guinness World Records officially recognized my 2250-stick stick bomb of November 11th, 2009 as a world record. You can see this video, plus my new kinetic-art masterpiece, Frenetic Kinetics! on my videos page. Whoo, hoo!
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What is Kinetic Art?
To the uninitiated, my kinetic gadgets are gnarly chain-reaction devices that collapse and explode in, like, really cool ways; to the discerning aesthete, they're mechanically-iterative, entropy-generating entities designed to confront the observer's pre-conceived notions about Newtonian physics and challenge their paradigms for processing reductivistic-mechanistic Weltanschauungen from a post-modernistic perspective. (Well, not really...)
Much more than mere domino tumbling, my kinetic gadgets use a wide variety of chain-reaction techniques of my own invention and they have Dalíesque names like Experimental Polymodal Slack-Generating Apparatus #9 and Test Detonation of 0.2 Kilostick Boosted-Yield Xyloexplosive Device #1. Not only can my gadgets collapse and explode in many ways, but they can play music tunes and have animation in them.
Kinetic art is a new, open-ended art medium whose potential has barely been tapped. The number of chain-reaction techniques is virtually limitless. You might find these articles on mechanical explosives and kinetic computing to be interesting. Enjoy!
Links to other kinetic art pages.
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Professional Information
My kinetic gadgets are truly one-of-a-kind as many of the techniques used are of my own invention and seen nowhere else. Their strong visual impact and their ability to incorporate logos or jingles into the design make my gadgets ideal for commercials. They've been in museum exhibitions where they always draw a crowd and have appeared on television several times. If you're a video production house looking for a unique idea for a short art film, I have a scenario available upon request. If you're a representative of a toy company looking for new product ideas (like the perfect domino, which nobody seems to get right), send me an e-mail. If you're a new band trying to get a killer music video on a reasonable budget, please shoot me an inquiry. If you have any other business inquiry regarding my kinetic art, please feel free to contact me at
lunatim@infionline.net
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The Kinetic Art webpage was last updated on 8/6/2010. All content, except where noted, was created by and is © Timothy Fort. Creator makes no guarantees as to proper performance and compatibility of video files. Although the construction of stick bombs is not explained on this website, the use of safety goggles is recommended for anybody creating or detonating stick bombs.
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