Movement and Time in the Nexus between Technological Modes with Jean Tinguely’s Kineticism

Arts

Christina Chau¹ 

[1] The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, Western Australia 6009; E-Mail

关键词: kinesis;    kineticism;    Jean Tinguely;    temporality;   

DOI  :  10.3390/arts3040394

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper addresses auto-destructive artworks by Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York (1960) and Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), to explore a changing consciousness of time in a period of technological transition from modern industrial machines towards the domestication of televisual devices. One effect of these is works is a contribution to a turbulent consciousness of time by orchestrating new perceptions of temporality with mechanical and tele-communicational media. Tinguely’s kineticism is useful for articulating how different technologies can be used to rationalize time in different ways and highlight an incompatibility between the expression of time as an unfolding duration with mechanical media, and the temporal demands of televisual broadcast media.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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