Experiments In Motion

Color Theory in Motion:

Artists and architects have long studied the effects color have on human perception. Cool colors tend to appear farther away or ‘recede’ which make spaces feel larger or longer. Warm colors appear closer or ‘advance’ which make spaces feel smaller or shorter. The projects above, by Softlab and Olafur Eliasson, are interesting examples of this phenomena. Cool colors precede warm colors which foreshortens the space and alters the viewers procession and spacial understanding of the respective corridors. Although movement is not physically affected, the viewers comprehension of time is compressed as they move through the space.

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Martin Klimas: Paintings in Motion

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Rene Magritte inspired identity for Citrus event agency designed by Moscow-based agency, “Who make it?“ 

Art Going Through the Motion: Robin Rhode

Rhode’s art combines performance and drawing to simulate motion on the streets of his native Johannesburg. By redrawing each new frame on top of the previous frame the division between them blurs which both creates a fluidity within the work and exposes the actions performed between frames.

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The Universe in Motion: Cyclotron

Beam of electrons moving in a circle in a magnetic field (cyclotron motion). Lighting is caused by excitation of atoms of gas in a bulb.

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Paper Tornados by Mia Pearlman

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Motion Patterns in Nature

(Photos from Bernhard Edmaier)

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Color and Motion: Fire Rainbows

Fire rainbows or circumhorizon arc is caused by the refraction though ice crystals in cirrus clouds of light from the sun. Refraction happens when the speed of light is reduced inside a particular medium. This particular refraction happens when light goes from air without cloud to air containing cloud. In this case it is vital that the cloud is cirrus in shape.

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Perception and Motion: The House Fallen from the Sky by Jean Francois Fourtou

“I made the house as if my grandfather has sent it from heaven,” says Fourtou. This piece not only changes the way one moves through the spaces of house, but also puts a curious spin on production. Where the house came from, how it was constructed and how one enters are all questions that are up for interpretation.

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