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Kinectic Art: Vibrating Rope Reveals the Spectrum

Ryan Nance April 14, 2013

Paul Friedlander, a British artist and physicist, creates these pieces light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The rope, invisible to the human eye while vibrating so quickly, reveals otherwise invisible bands of color.

by Paul Friedlander. Experimental hand held light sculpture, London studio 2004 http://www.paulfriedlander.com/text/videos.htm

Friedlander:

"I decided to focus on kinetic art: a subject in which I could bring together my divided background and combine my knowledge of physics with my love of light. In 1983, at London's ICA, I exhibited the first sculptures to use chromastrobic light, a discovery I had made the previous year. Chromastrobic light changes color faster than the eye can see, causing the appearance of rapidly moving forms to mutate in the most remarkable ways."

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In 5tilt Tags science, light art, art, kinetic art
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