The Kinetic King welcomes you to his domino domain!

At the beginning of July, 2008, I flew out to Seattle to work with the advertising agency Wexley School for Girls. I set up dominoes and other gadgets in the production of a video to be used in a public karaoke display.

In March, 2008, I created four gadgets at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the Exhibitor 2008 trade show. The show was an *ahem* smashing success, and the audiences loved my gadgets. During the exhibition, I was interviewed by Jason Davis, the host of local television station KSTP's popular news show, On the Road. You can see pictures of the show here. This episode of On the Road was devoted to weird and wacky artists, and was aired on Sunday, April 27th, 2008. Whoo, hoo!

Visitors to the Kinetic Art subpage since 10/29/02:

The Fun Stuff

Click on the icon below to go to my extensive collection of kinetic gadget videos.

VIDEOS

If you're not able to view the videos and want to see a few pictures of my kinetic gadgets, click on the link below.

PICTURES

Public Exhibitions

I've made so many public appearances with my kinetic art lately, that I've created a subpage devoted exclusively to public exhibitions of my kinetic art! Click on the icon below to check it out.

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.

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 have any business inquiry regarding my kinetic art, feel free to contact me at lunatim@infionline.net .

The Kinetic Art webpage was last updated on 6/3/2008. 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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