I managed to get myself over to the Kinetica art fair yesterday, a show curated from artists specialising in kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound and time-based works.

The exhibition was a visual extravaganza of electronic wizardry and macabre machines - confirmed by my 5 year old son Robin who for once didn’t moan that he was hungry throughout - although he did want the beer poured from a robotic waiter.

For me this piece, entitled Trace by Balint Bolygo was the stand out. The work consisted of a revolving plaster cast of a person’s head which was slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram.

This happened using a mechanical contraption that relayed the changing contours of the heads rotation to a pen connected via a series of metal arms, resulting in these impressive drawings:

Pic courtesy of The Telegraph

Pic courtesy of Chris O’Shea

For other works, also see Pixelsumo’s review who I’m glad to say was in agreement, plus see the Beeb for a vid.