Word: kineticism
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Verne's underground hike would, have taken far less time, says Cooper, if he had simply fallen into a frictionless tunnel bored through the earth's center. Accelerated by the force of gravity on the first half of his trip, he would have gained just enough kinetic energy...
To most humans, walking is the pedestrian business of putting one foot in front of the other. Not so in Germany. There it is a cherished tradition, a cure for ills mental and physical, and the kinetic tie that binds family and society together.
∙NAM JUNE PAIK, 33, a Korean, is a devotee of Composer John Cage, and his primary ambition was to compose far-out sounds. Electronic music inspired him to make electronic art, just as the Russian composer Scriabin made a motorized light display to accompany his Prometheus half a century...
Genius or Gimmickry? Film Maker Hans Richter calls kinetic art "the movement movement." He applauds its humor, which gives "us a feeling of liberation from the purposefulness of all the [machines] that condition our life." Yet he warns that since the machine expresses purposefulness, and art purposelessness, combining the two...
That reality is composed of motion, or constant change, is unquestionable. That art gains by truly imitating reality is not. For kinetic art, the dilemma is to surmount the gimmickry necessary to make it move. A question yet unanswered is: Would Leonardo da Vinci have been truer to life if...