Index of Videos

1. A Question of KinEthics

Figure 1.5. Woman creating a drawing on a 1990 replica of Jean Tinguely’s Méta-Matic No. 10, 1959. Museum Tinguely, Basel. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/Mrvriy6TaEU. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Museum Tinguely, Basel. Video: Walter Kummli.
Figure 1.7. Otto Piene’s Neon Medusa, 1969, in operation. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, gift of Leonore F. Rosenthal. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/lP8QLUGaupA. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Figure 1.10. Liz Larner’s Corner Basher, 1988, in operation. Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/UkpyR7iLm5Q. Courtesy of the artist.
Figure 1.12. Leo Villareal’s Flowers 8, 2005. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/Kpwfx8Zn0S4. Courtesy of Donald R. Mullen Jr., with permission from the artist.

3. Fast and Furious

Figure 3.1. Chris Burden’s Metropolis II, 2011, in action. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/7vQkoFfU9gA. © Chris Burden Estate. Courtesy of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation. Photo: Mark Gilberg and Alison Walker.

4. Conserving Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia Suite, Opus 158

Figure 4.9. Yale University Art Gallery’s video documentation of Wilfred’s Lumia Suite, Opus 158. Museum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum Collection Files. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/h4PxDv_CFS4. Video: Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery.

5. Cybernetic Umbrella

Figure 5.1. The central crown of Umbrella, 1971, by Wen-Ying Tsai, in action at Tate Modern’s Tank Gallery, June 16, 2016–February 5, 2017. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/gj42ZITk7EM. Courtesy Tsai Art and Science Foundation. Photo: © Tate, London 2016.

6. Moving with the Times

Figure 6.1. Max Dean’s As Yet Untitled, 1992–95, on view in Drone: The Automated Image at VOX, Centre de l’Image Contemporaine, Montreal, September 7–October 19, 2013, during Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2013. Installation from the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/h5mMCqOLACo. © 2017 Max Dean/Art Gallery of Ontario.

7. Takis and the Fourth Dimension

Figure 7.6. Detail of the operation of Takis’s Musical-M.013 producing sound, 2000. The Menil Collection, Houston, gift of the artist. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/OdKBY-9Xeos. © Takis Foundation. Video capture: The Menil Collection, Houston, Adam Baker.
Figure 7.8. Detail of posttreatment mechanics on Takis’s Ballet Magnetique, 1961. The Menil Collection, Houston. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/lBixeFhcJm8. © Takis Foundation. Video capture: The Menil Collection, Houston, Adam Baker.
Figure 7.10. Operation of Takis’s Ballet Magnetique, 1961, after conservation treatment. The Menil Collection, Houston. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/j86w750dsNU. © Takis Foundation. Video capture: The Menil Collection, Houston, Adam Baker.

8. Preserving Performativity

Figure 8.2. Aleksandar Srnec adjusting his luminokinetic artwork at his exhibition in 1969. Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/j5rhSkSZc3w. Video: V. Petek.
Figure 8.6. Analogue projection of Aleksandar Srnec’s Luminoplastic 1, 1965–67. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/bXS4nfmu5Tw. Video: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
Figure 8.11. Comparison of the analogue and digital projections. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/EY3foRIJIFE. Video: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.

9. Engineering a Solution

Figure 9.1. Gregorio Vardanega’s Espaces chromatiques carrées en spirale (Chromatic Spaces Turning in a Spiral), 1968, Plexiglas, light bulbs, and motor; after treatment. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by the Latin Maecenas, 2010.173. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/zNr9YISTQfw. © Estate of Gregorio Vardanega. Courtesy Sicardi Gallery Houston. Video: Matt Golden © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Figure 9.3. Gregorio Vardanega’s Couleurs sonores (Sound Colors), 1963–79, metal, light bulbs, and electric motor; after treatment. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the estate of the artist and Sicardi Gallery, 2013.665.A-.G. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/PVJR2aAmdU4. © Estate of Gregorio Vardanega. Courtesy Sicardi Gallery Houston. Video: Matt Golden © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Figure 9.5. Horacio García Rossi’s Structure à lumière instable no. 29 (Unstable Light Structure No. 29), 1966, painted wood, Lucite rods, electric motor, and lights; after treatment. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Benbow and Jean Bullock, 2004.1618. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/E1HBHKpd46U. © Horacio García Rossi. Video: Matt Golden © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Figure 9.7. Abraham Palatnik’s Aparelho cinecromático (Chromo-kinetic set), 1962, wooden box with plastic cover, electric motor, and colored light bulbs linked to a programmed electric circuit and cardboard paddles; after treatment. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, 2007.21. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/wRws0HvLPB8. © Abraham Palatnik. Video: Matt Golden © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

15. “Pretty Good for the 21st Century”

Figure 15.2. Len Lye’s A Flip and Two Twisters (Trilogy), 1977 footage. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/fgqht8Ui8dw. Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Figure 15.4. Len Lye’s Loop, ca. 1964, after its 2016 restoration. The Art Institute of Chicago, Barbara Neff Smith and Solomon Byron Smith Purchase Fund. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/zuY2-yNpJ-8. Len Lye Foundation Collection.
Figure 15.5. Len Lye’s Five Fountains and a Firebush, 2007. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/t_Or2bTzcbg. Courtesy of Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.