Ruben Ortiz-Torres

Mark Doty is the author of Sweet Machine (1998) and the memoir Firebird (1999)

enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions

and congratulations to Berns are merited for the text’s rare and valuable ability to engage directly with a 'curious' audience

Keep It Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art Picture Worlds Ruben Ortiz-TorresEdited by Rachel Rivenc and Reinhard Bek Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven movement to motion as the result of wind, light, or other sources of energy. Kinetic art emerged throughout the twentieth century and had its major developments in