Skulturen, Klaus Pinter
https://domaine-chaumont.fr/en/centre-arts-and-nature/archives/2013-art-season/klaus-pinter
Makes very large scale, inflated installations, however they are not kinetic. They’re interesting for their size and shape, and personally I find them intriguing for their potential transference into movement.
Adaptive Pneumatic Shelters, Hani Fallaha
http://www.achimmenges.net/?p=4401
These pneumatic shelters are more of an architecture piece than sculpture, but similar to Klaus Pinter’s work in that their size makes them intriguing. I am particularly drawn to them for their different potential inflated positions, which resembles breathing.
Jewelry, Katharina Vones
I enjoy the colors and shapes that are in this jewelry! The contrast between the silicon and the wire is beautiful and I can see how something similar might be used in a soft robotic sculpture piece.
Aeromorph Inflatables, MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group
I thought it was interesting to see how different seams within the inflatable change how it actuates. Having taken the e-textiles micro, we briefly went over different types of soft actuation in textiles, and this reminded me of that. I also thought it was interesting to see paper (or something like paper) being used. It’s definitely more uncommon to see in a kinetic/inflatable space.