Kinetic Sculpture

i love sculpture that moves. coming from an animation backround, i love the the idea that a sculpture could be an animate object, especially when that process of animation utilizes the same "persistence of vision" techniques required for cinema and traditional animation to occur.

gregory barsamian is an artist who builds large structures that contain short cyclical animated scenes, in which every frame of the scene is duplicated as a part of the sculpture. then the entire thing is set into motion and sync'd to a strobe light, so it appears that the animation is actually happening in one position over time. unfortunately, the video documentation available on the web is fairly poor and doesn't give a good sense of how amazing this work is, but seeing it in person is mind blowing.