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Kinetic Sculpture (Week 1)

 

This was one of the first projects that inspired me to find the interesting intersection and the infinite results between the analog and the new technologies. The Kinetic Sculpture: THE SHAPES OF THINGS TO COME (2008), is an installation designed for the BMW museum in Munich by Art + COM where the history of BMW is shown by animating the iconic forms of the cars. BMW’s brand recognition is given by the car silhouettes, and the sculpture efficiently highlights the pure values of BMW design and brand history.

The sculpture integrates good design, great story / concept, simplicity in the result and technical complexity (electronics + mechanics + code). This is an equation that makes an object, sculpture, experience successful.

Technical details: six-square-meters area and 714 metal spheres are suspended from the ceiling.

In the words of the designers: “The theme of the installation is the form-finding process in car design, which is performed in a seven-minute choreographed sequence: at the beginning the installation is in a chaotic state. No form or design idea has yet been found. The spheres move individually creating an impression of spatial white noise. Slowly the first geometric forms emerge, loosely relating to the contours of the vehicle that appear later.”