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What do you think of kinetic art? \u00c2\u00a0Does it sound complicated and hard? \u00c2\u00a0It’s not, it is just a fancy way of saying “Art that moves.” \u00c2\u00a0\"2014-06-07<\/p>\n

This last week at Mad Science Saturday we explored motion and balance looking at the kinetic art of Alexander Calder.
\nTo make this project, our young renaissance artists danced to some music and drew pictures of each other.They were not allowed to look at their pictures while they drew. <\/p>\n

We cut and scored their paper sketches along curves. The resulting forms do unexpected things. They curve around themselves and stick out at weird angles. They really look like dancers in motion!<\/p>\n

\"dancer<\/p>\n

Once we had our forms, we began the mobile portion of the exercise. Dancing again, this time in slow motion, I showed them how the center of their body always remained in a vertical line from their neck down. They applied this sensation to their mobiles, and the mobiles turned out balanced.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, FLY teachers were honored to be invited to a seminar with Matt Shlian<\/a>, a local artist and one of a very few Paper Engineers in the country. He told us about various aspects of his work, including the curved score method of paper-folding. <\/p>\n

We were excited that we’d have an opportunity to share this technique with the kids so soon. This project was already scheduled, but hearing how grown-up scientists and engineers apply techniques that our young artists can learn is really inspiring. <\/p>\n

\"2014-06-07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you think of kinetic art? \u00c2\u00a0Does it sound complicated and hard? \u00c2\u00a0It’s not, it is just a fancy way of saying “Art that moves.” \u00c2\u00a0 This last week at Mad Science Saturday we explored motion and balance looking at the kinetic art of Alexander Calder. 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