The kinetic objects series by Thomas Steffens.
I invented a series of low-tech machines, made from computer fans and turntables, packaging, tape, table-tennis balls, comic figures and many other things I found in the studio.
KINETIC OBJECTS
A GREAT
COINCIDENCE
TOOK ME THERE…
KINETIC OBJECTS
A GREAT
COINCI-
DENCE
TOOK ME THERE…
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… it was not my plan or my intention to develop kinetic objects. I found 2 computer fans in the studio, with which I built a chaotic object, better I just played to myself.
![love-and-Inspiration_web](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/love-and-Inspiration_web.jpg)
A look at the chaotic installation in my studio. Cardboard boxes with drawings, notes on paper, pamphlets with political statements and the computer fans in the middle. The fans still play a subordinate role in the whole big bang.
KINETIC OBJECTS
TURNTABLES AND FANS
KINETIC OBJECTS
TURN-
TABLES AND VANS
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… the kinetic show elements.
![Exhibition at Rhenannia kinetic object](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DSC1521_Rhenannia_kinetic_web.jpg)
![Objekt_Merry-go-round](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Objekt_Merry-go-round.jpg)
![Objekt_Merry-go-round03](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Objekt_Merry-go-round03.jpg)
The turntables serve as a merry-go-round carousel, these objects are really fun to study. The ironic question „Does Humor Belong In Arts?“ was the title of this exhibition.
![At_the_studio2_sep_2010_01_2021](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/At_the_studio2_sep_2010_01_2021-scaled.jpg)
![Low_tec-Things](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Low_tec-Things.jpg)
An electric motor from a printer has the pleasant property of rotating at intervals. It is very exciting to simulate the technically rotating eye of a cyclop.
![Low_tec-Things-12](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Low_tec-Things-12-scaled.jpg)
![Thomas_Steffens_Funky-Detail Kinetic Low Tech Machines](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Thomas_Steffens_Funky-Detail_1800.jpg)
The twisting tower was made possible by a defective fan blade, let chance in, it likes to work with you.
KINETIC OBJECTS
THE SURPRISING POWER OF VISUAL ABSURDUTY…
KINETIC OBJECTS
THE SURPRISING
POWER
OF VISUAL
ABSURDUTY
…
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… whenever I show the objects, the visitors are amazed at the visual absurdity, it is a game with the senses.
![Passagen-2010_2021](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Passagen-2010_2021-e1621500642398.jpg)
![_DSC6270box](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DSC6270box.jpg)
![Low_tec-Things-11](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Low_tec-Things-11-e1621500727146.jpg)
There are some things I love very much about these objects. The exposed cables, for example, the aesthetics of the fans, the beauty of the combination of materials
![Kinetic object installation](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bg_exhi_Eitorf2010_2-e1621500764904.jpg)
Wonderful pictures can be made in the exhibition, in the studio, whenever the objects can be seen, images of them are also created, these are also part of the art.
![Thomas_Steffens_Rotoren Kinetic Low Tech Machines](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Thomas_Steffens_Rotoren2_1800.jpg)
![The-Soft-Parade_Aerokicker_2014.jpg The Soft Parade - Aerokicker 2014 | © Thomas Steffens 2014](https://thomas-steffens.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/The-Soft-Parade_Aerokicker_2014.jpg.jpg)