Notes on lecture:

Kinetic Art: Relating to motion. Since the early twentieth century artists have been incorporating movement into art.

• Explore the possibilities of movement

• Introduce the element of time

• Reflect the importance of the machine and technology in the modern world

• Explore the nature of vision

Mary Ellen Bute

• American animator and experimental filmmaker.

• Early 1950s, produced abstract animated films which she called 'Abstronic'.

• Photography of objects like ping-pong balls and through a variety of prisms and distorting mirrors.

• Bute incorporated the wiggling curves of oscilloscope patterns, filmed off of the device's cathode-ray display; early experiments in using electronically-generated imagery in filmmaking.

Artists Who Make Machines

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