Word: sina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hanging pieces are beautiful though. Sina had developed a special power supply that eliminates the need for the heavy wiring and the high-power transformers found in ordinary neon signs. This breakthrough has enabled Sina to create many effects previously unobtainable in kinetic...
...Sina originally designed these works so observers could affect the changing patterns by turning a knob on the piece, but, unfortunately, in this exhibit the works have been computerized to show the maximum number of possible patterns...
Gaslight Phenomena, the exhibit of kinetic light sculpture by Alejandro Sina at the Institute of Contemporary Art until May 1, is just that kind of art. It is fun to be hypnotized by the pieces that whirl in intricate patterns, to touch the "Touch Bulbs" and to gaze at the gently swaying hanging pices...
...Sina, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT since 1973, has been experimenting with gas discharge light phenomena. In his sculpture he has managed to use his knowledge of chemistry and physics perhaps less usefully, but certainly more aesthetically, than his colleagues in the scientific departments...
Most of the 17 pices in the exhibit use some sort of glass rod filled with one of the "noble gasses" (you remember from chemistry: that's helium, argon, neon etc.). The chemistry teacher always called those the "inert" gasses, but Sina uses electronics to make the gas-filled rods move in all sorts of interesting ways...