Video History Project

Bibliography

The Technique of Kinetic Art

Author
John Tovey
Publisher
B T Batsford Limited
Place
London, England
Type
Manuscript, text or essay
ETC archive
ETC2324

Abstract

The Technique of Kinetic Art. Contents follow: Part I (Vision and perception, Illusion, and Illusory movement), Part II (Light and simple optics, Colour, and The use of light), Part III (Control of light: mechanical, Control of light: electro-mechanical, Control of light: electronic, and Basic circuits), Part IV (Electricity, Low voltage supplies and rectification). Appendices includes SI Units and abbreviations, Pulfrichs pendulum, Rhombic dodecahedron, Details of construction, Electronic and electrical symbols and resistor code. See also a Bibliography, Suppliers in Great Britain and the USA, and an Index.
Cite this record

John Tovey. The Technique of Kinetic Art. B T Batsford Limited. 1971.

Download RIS citation
From the Experimental Television Center archive

ETC2324

The Technique of Kinetic Art. Contents follow: Part I (Vision and perception, Illusion, and Illusory movement), Part II (Light and simple optics, Colour, and The use of light), Part III (Control of light: mechanical, Control of light: electro-mechanical, Control of light: electronic, and Basic circuits), Part IV (Electricity, Low voltage supplies and rectification). Appendices includes SI Units and abbreviations, Pulfrichs pendulum, Rhombic dodecahedron, Details of construction, Electronic and electrical symbols and resistor code. See also a Bibliography, Suppliers in Great Britain and the USA, and an Index.

Submit a change or correction

If unchecked, this will appear as a public note on the site immediately. Spam filters may delay publication, but all submissions are reviewed by staff.

Changes will be reviewed and integrated as time permits. For major changes, feel free to email [email protected].

Last modified 22 June 2011

Related records

  • Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice, Selections from the Journal Leonardo Bibliography

    Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice, Selections from the Journal Leonardo. This compilation includes Introduction by Frank J. Malina, Founder-Editor of Leonardo and the following Contents: Part I. Pictorial Kinetic Art with Optical, Mechanical, Electro-mechanical and Chemical Systems, Part II. Kinetic …

  • Videokunst Foto Action/Performance Femistische Kunst. In German Bibliography

  • The Nature and Art of Motion Bibliography

  • Vision in Motion Bibliography

    Vision in Motion. Contents include Foreword, Acknowledgment, Introduction, Section I. Analyzing the Situation: Vision in Motion, Section II. New Method of Approach- Design for Life, Section III. New Education- Organic Approach, subsection A. general outline, subsection B. Integration- the arts explo…

  • Howard Wise Gallery Chronology

    "Festival of Lights" at Howard Wise Gallery, New York City. Exhibition of kinetic lights works that include video works by Serge Boutourline, Nam June Paik, Aldo Tambellini and others

  • Light and Darkness in the Electronic Landscape: Some Aspects of the Video Image Tools

    Barbara Buckner's lecture, presented at the Collective for Living Cinema in February 1978, analyses the video image's technological and aesthetic properties, describing electron-beam scanning (525 horizontal lines, 30 frames/second, two fields per frame, 1/60th second vertical retrace), tape recording, monitors and sync pulses. She contrasts video and film, discusses video image processors and computer-based video synthesizers (citing Donald E. McArthur, Experimental Television Center, June 1977) and considers implications for storage, automated composition and the artist's role in machine-assisted image-making.