Contents
Illustration credits vii
List of illustrations viii
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgements xv
PART I
1.Movement at the periphery 3
A morphology of pattern for kinetic facades 3
The potental of kinetics 8
2.Kinetic precedent 13
Contemporary practice 13
Contemporary discourse 24
Kinetic theory 30
The challenge of kinetics ' 33
3.Systems, fields and reflexivity 39
A wider perspective 39
Compositional systems 40
Field thinking 46
Cybernetics 51
Some implications for kinetics 55
4. Kinetic art 57
The temporal arts 57
Popper: kinetic procedures 61
Lye: figures of motion 64
Rickey: the ship at sea 66
Dorin: taxonomy of process 70
PART II
5.Decision planes 77
Rewind 1 77
Animated variables 79
Towards a framework 80
6.Experiments with kinetic pattern 91
Index and intuition 91
Variables 93
Visualizing pattern 99
Stages 101
7.All at sea: a provisional taxonomy 105
Taxonomy as heuristic device 105
Overview of animations 106
From ship to sea 120
A first cut 123
8.State change 135
Non-ascribable 135
Taking stock 137
Towards state change 143
From theory to practice 148
Notes 151
Bibliography 168
Index 174