Word: tsai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tools, from stereo to juicer, are stuffed with miniaturized circuits and every discotheque routinely puts on light shows that eclipse anything that the Biennale ever offered. Yet, a few artists continue to produce kinetic objects of real aesthetic interest. One is an affable Chinese ex-engineer from Shanghai named Tsai, whose cybernetic sculptures-the result of a fellowship at M.I.T.-are currently at the Denise René gallery in New York...
...plate. This base vibrates at 30 cycles per second; the rods flex rapidly, in harmonic curves. Set in a dark room, they are lit by strobes. The pulse of the flashing lights varies-they are connected to sound and proximity sensors. The result is that when one approaches a Tsai or makes a noise in its vicinity, the thing responds. The rods appear to move; there is a shimmering, a flashing, an eerie ballet of metal, whose apparent movements range from stillness to jittering, and back to a slow, indescribably sensuous undulation...
...seems appropriate that the origins of Tsai's art lie in an experience of nature. One day in 1965 in a New Hampshire wood, Tsai spent hours watching the sun flickering through the wind-stirred trees. "Then I realized that this could go into sculpture. I was interested in vibration already - but theoretically. It all came together that day in the woods." His working method is intuitive; one sculpture had to be remade 21 times before its movement was right. But the result justifies the effort. Tsai's work is free from the determinism and obtrusive simplicity...
...stock rocketed; traded over the counter, it hit $52 before splitting two for one. Buyers have included Morgan Guaranty, Continental Illinois National Bank, and the endowment funds of Harvard and Cornell. Gerald Tsai's Manhattan Fund bought 122,000 shares last October at an average $41 per share. When Wall Street was thirsting for a growth stock, Randell provided...
...Tsai's "Cybernetic Environment" includes four groups of vibrating wires, apparently of steel, illuminated by strobe lights in the dark hall. The speed of the strobe can be changed by hand-clapping, whistling, or noise-making in general. Its technical means are not complex...