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I, Lunatim Rex, invite you to partake of the fascinating videos and pictures contained herein!

One of my kinetic animations, Magic Domino, is featured in the cool new children's video Sunshine Again--be the first on your block to own a copy!

My kinetic-art video, Edifice Wrecks, was shown on Twin Cities Public Television, channel 2, on December 27th, 2009 at 10 PM.

In April of 2009, I participated in the Saint Paul Art Crawl, creating three large gadgets for the exhibition. In July of 2009, I was notified that my video, Edifice Wrecks, was chosen by IFP Minnesota for inclusion in the 2009 MNTV Showcase to be shown on Twin Cities Public Television in the Fall of this year. On November 6th, I taught a class on the art of making stick bombs at Studio Bricolage in Minneapolis.

The Sunday edition of the Pioneer Press newspaper in Saint Paul (11/21/2009) ran a large feature article on my kinetic art, including an online video of my latest world-record stick bomb. On November 22nd, 2009, I taught a class on 'Stick-Bomb Physics' at the Science Museum of Minnesota, teaching children the art of stick-bomb making. Whoo, hoo!

Be sure to check out my cool new kinetic-art and stop-motion videos here, including my latest world-record stick bomb! Thanks to an Artist's Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, I was able to greatly improve the quality of my kinetic-art videos, including high-speed and high-definition videography. It's more fun than you should be allowed to have!

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'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 .

The Kinetic Art webpage was last updated on 12/28/2009. 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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