KINETIC WATER SCULPTURE PROJECT

We are seeking university partners for this unique multidisciplinary project that would be a fascinating way for students to "become a part of the solution" to our critical global warming issues.


These dynamic floating sculptures will be designed to use the sun, wind, and waves/tides to power their changing visual elements, which in-turn will capture the public imagination about the elegant solution of using non-polluting, renewable energy sources to mitigate rising CO2 levels and temperatures on our beautiful blue planet.


We are seeking university partners for this unique multidisciplinary project that would be a fascinating way for students to become a part of the solution to our critical global warming issues. 
These dynamic floating sculptures will be designed to use the sun, wind, and waves/tides to power their changing visual elements, which in-turn will capture the public imagination about the elegant solution of using non-polluting, renewable energy sources to mitigate rising CO2 levels and temperatures on our beautiful blue planet.
We are seeking university partners for this unique multidisciplinary project that would be a fascinating way for students to become a part of the solution to our critical global warming issues. 
These dynamic floating sculptures will be designed to use the sun, wind, and waves/tides to power their changing visual elements, which in-turn will capture the public imagination about the elegant solution of using non-polluting, renewable energy sources to mitigate rising CO2 levels and temperatures on our beautiful blue planet.
We are seeking university partners for this unique multidisciplinary project that would be a fascinating way for students to become a part of the solution to our critical global warming issues. 
These dynamic floating sculptures will be designed to use the sun, wind, and waves/tides to power their changing visual elements, which in-turn will capture the public imagination about the elegant solution of using non-polluting, renewable energy sources to mitigate rising CO2 levels and temperatures on our beautiful blue planet.

The NYC office of the renowned international engineering company, Arup, is our enthusiastic technical partner.


Stay-tuned for future project up-dates!

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ASCI's HISTORY with

KINETIC, SOLAR, and LIGHT ART

& INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS


International Kinetic Art Exhibition & Symposium (2013)   ASCI Director, Cynthia Pannucci, was an invited speaker on kinetic art at this first gathering in Boynton Beach, FL. [online documentation]

"SolarScapes" (1999)  ASCI designed and distributed the RFP for GPU Energy's competition to commission two, solar-powered public artworks for permanent installation at Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ.  [online documentation]

"LightForms'98" (1998)  ASCI designed and produced an international call for three, large-scale, interactive light artworks for its exhibition in the Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science. [online documentation]

 

"Neo-Kinetics: Postmodern Techne" (1996)  Large group exhibition held at Eighth Floor Gallery, NYC  [no online documentation]


"Lumen-Essence II" (1996) Group exhibition curated by Cynthia Pannucci at Westbeth Gallery, NYC  [no online documentation]


"SpringWorks: Interactive Art" (1995)  The sound art and kinetic sculpture collaborations of Sue Rees and Jonathan Beepler curated by Cynthia Pannucci for the Great Hall of the New York Hall of Science [online documentation]


"WATER-STRIDER" by Cynthia Pannucci (1995) was designed and fabricated as a working prototype to test UV and salt water appropriate materials, its solar-powered strobe lighting system, and the float system in order to inform the future RFP for ASCI's Kinetic Water Sculpture Project. [see above /this page]


"SpringWorks: The Pull of Kinetics II" (1993)  An expanded version of 1992 show commissioned for the Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science. [exhibition catalog]


"The Pull of Kinetics" (1992)  Organized and produced this first ASCI Members show curated by Cynthia Pannucci at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NYC [exhibition catalog]


And...

ASCI has been organizing international art-sci competition-exhibitions at the New York Hall of Science since 1998. [see exhibition archive]


"Water-Strider"

(above)


Cynthia Pannucci designed and fabricated the "Water-Strider" sculpture (1995) as a working prototype to test UV and salt water appropriate materials, its solar-powered strobe lighting system, and the float system in order to inform the project's future RFP. 


WATER-STRIDER was an 8-foot long, Plexiglas, aquatic sculpture with a strobe fiber-optic lighting system powered by a solar panel -- it blinked off/on at night like a lightning bug.

 

Facilitating Partners Included:  Electrical engineer, Philippe des Rioux, designed and donated the electrical controller, the fiber optics were donated by Lumenyte International, strobe light from Whelen Engineering, solar panel from Siemens, and four floats for the bug's foot-pads from Nelson A. Taylor company.