Developing our Florascope and just performed the new solar powered element at the Henley Festival. http://www.artsrepublic.co.uk/kinetic/Florascope.html
Last Feb I showed a new pieceThe Green Ray 2 (Homage to Inaccuracy) at theKinetica Artfair. This is a new version of the original Green Ray. I'm very excited about this piece as it has become a ball of green interfence pattern light, looking as though its receiving signals out of the ether.In actual fact the work has become more about the surface of matter, which is something I'm fascinateded about, as it literally is 'describing' visualy the microscopic flaws between the brass and carbon surface of the slip rings( these transfer the electricity to the spinning part) and these manifest as interference pattern in the light traces.
Cog wheels, fibonnacci numbers and morphogenesis - what more could I ask for? and what an incredible mind was Alan M Turing! Read the Andrew Hodges biography - it gives you a unique insite into the complexity of his mind afloat in a fascinating period of history; technology,the intellectual elite, cold war and homosexuality.
Well currentish - A highlight of the year was being invited to particpate in the exhibition Mindful . This was an exhibition to help raise money for the mental aid charity Mind. The exhibition was curated by Stuart Semple and was held in the Old Vic Tunnels for a week in late September. The artists were also invited to the gala dinner held in The Imperial War Museum, which was originally Bethlam Hospital for the insane, or Bedlam as it was commonly known. The dinner was a celebration of the chairmanship of Mind passing from Lord Melvyn Bragg to Stephen Fry. After the dinner both gave wonderful speeches as we were seated amongst tanks and military hardware.
I was originally asked by Stuart to exhibit The Green Ray, but due to a last minute mishap where I blew its circuits, I had to substitute it with the sister peice Let's Bounce. It was a shame as would have fitted in beautifully but all was fine in the end as Stuart placed it skillfully within the exhibition . The Old Vic Tunnels were new to me - it is an abolutely incredible space - dripping brick vaulted tunnels directly beneath Waterloo so you hear the suburban trains rolling overhead. The Mindful week also included a screening of short films from the Soho Shorts film festival organised by Dennis Da Silva of Art Hertz. Crooked Beauty was one of the best filmic studies of what it is like to be 'insane' in a 'normal' world, also a sublime B & W film study of beauty within mundanity. Go Ken Paul
During the summer in the exhibition Wovon Machinen Traumen – (What Machines Dream of) in Berlin by Ars Electronica, showing my glass sculpture Light Wave courtesy of Kinetica Museum. The show contains some very exciting new media art and runs from 7th July until 28th August 2011. The address is The Automobile Forum, Unter Der Linden and Friedrichstasse, Berlin. see exhibition photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/sets/72157626639207591/
Wilkinson’s kinetic sculptures deal in the illusion that the world consists only of solid bodies. The energy fields that make for stability in physical reality and make interaction possible evade human perception. Accordingly ‘Light Wave’ presents itself as an apparently stable body too. The wave motion, with its perfect balance between gravity and kinetic power can certainly exert a spellbinding effect on those beholding it. The kinetic sculpture suggests “pure energy”, a wave of illumination expressed in the form of endless rhythmic motion of a sine wave rippling across its surface.
From the exhibition text– Ars Electonica – Linz, Austria
