Contents
- Cover
- Foreword — Timothy P. Whalen
- Preface — Rachel Rivenc
- Opening Remarks: The Kinetic Collection at the Museo del Novecento, Milan — Iolanda Ratti
- Part 1. Keynotes
- Part 2. Case Studies
- 3. Fast and Furious: Operation, Maintenance, and Repair of Chris Burden’s Metropolis II at LACMA — Mark Gilberg, Alison Walker, and Richard Sandomeno
- 4. Conserving Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia Suite, Opus 158 — Carol Snow and Lynda Zycherman
- 5. Cybernetic Umbrella: A Case Study in Collaboration — Carla Flack, Louise Lawson, Jack McConchie, and Ming-Yi Tsai
- 6. Moving with the Times: The Refurbishment and Restoration of a Choreographed Robotic Arm — Sherry Phillips and Marcel Verner
- Part 3. Collections/Artists’ Oeuvres
- 7. Takis and the Fourth Dimension — Erin Stephenson and Kari Dodson
- 8. Preserving Performativity: Conserving the Elusive in Aleksandar Srnec’s
Artwork — Mirta Pavić and Vesna Meštrić - 9. Engineering a Solution: Latin American Light-Based Kinetic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — Jane Gillies and Ingrid Seyb
- 10. Intertwined Strategies for Conservation and Display of Kinetic Art: Case Studies in the European Neo-Avant-Garde — Francesca Pola and Barbara Ferriani
- 11. The Examination and Conservation of Thirteen Artworks by Jean Tinguely in the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam — Esther Meijer, Susanne Meijer, and Sandra Weerdenburg
- Part 4. Theoretical Issues
- 12. The Hype about ZERO and Its Influence on the Conservation and Presentation of Early Kinetic Works — Gunnar Heydenreich and Julia Giebeler
- 13. Kinetic Multiples: Between Industrial Vocation and Handcrafted Solutions — Isabel Plante
- 14. The Collection of Nicolas Schöffer: From the Artist’s Studio to the Museum — Manon D’haenens, Muriel Verbeeck, and David Strivay
- 15. “Pretty Good for the 21st Century”: Restoration, Reconstruction, and Realization of Len Lye’s “Tangible Motion Sculpture” — Paul Brobbel and Simon Rees
- Part 5. Posters
- 16. Conserving Mechanical Elements in Technological Artifacts: Three Case Studies from Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci,” Milan — Marianna Cappellina and Claudio Giorgione
- 17. Think Big! The Conservation of Ballerina Clown, a Kinetic Work of Art by Jonathan Borofsky — Mine Erhan
- 18. Conserving a Kinetic “Rotor”: Light Dynamo by Heinz Mack — Paola Iazurlo, Grazia De Cesare, and Mariastella Margozzi
- 19. Considering the Continuum of Care for Outdoor Kinetic Sculpture — Abigail Mack, Friederike Steckling, and Sara Levin
- 20. Gianni Colombo’s Strutturazione cinevisuale abitabile: From Flickering
to Light — Marlies Peller, Gerda Kaltenbruner, and Martina Pfenninger Lepage - 21. Death of a moment: Management, Installation, and Maintenance of a Site-Specific Kinetic Sculpture — Eugenia Stamatopoulou
- 22. Future in Motion: Conservation Issues of Seven Kinetic Artworks by Dutch Artist Ray Staakman — Carien van Aubel, Nikki van Basten, Katja van de Braak, Sjoukje van der Laan, Anouk Verbeek, and Marleen Wagenaar
- 23. The Conservation Ethics of and Strategies for Preserving and Exhibiting
an Operational Car: The Motion and Standstill of Joost Conijn’s Hout Auto (Wood Car) — Arthur van Mourik
- Contributors
- Symposium Participants
- Index of Videos
- Bibliography