Kinetica Art Fair 2011: The Evolution of Consciousness

Kinetic art has come a long way since its inception in Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel in 1913. Today the discipline, which started with Duchamp's first 'Readymade' incorporates everything from kinetics, electronics, robotics to sound and light.

To celebrate this constant innovation between the fields of art, design, technology and science, the Kinetica Museum will once again be holding the Kinetica Art Fair - the UK's only show dedicated to kinetic, electronic and new media art.

Now in its 3rd edition, the 2011 festival will particularly focus on the evolution of the human body, brain, mind and consciousness. Highlights of the fair include a performance by world-renowned Australian artist Stelarc who will present his “Ear on Arm” project involving an Internet-enabled ear that hears and transmits and which has been surgically grafted onto the artist's arm; Holotronica – a live holographic audiovisual performance by Stuart Warren-Hill and Art and the Brain – Picturing Perception, a talk by a scientist-writer Rita Carter and artist Garry Kennard.

Follow the link to Creative Boom for more highlights of the 2011 Fair, and details about new artists exhibiting taking part.