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Fans of kinetic, electronic and new media art could do a whole lot worse than pay a visit to the Kinetica Art Fair, which takes place over this weekend. Organised by the Kinetica Museum, itself a well-hidden, oft-missed gem in East London, the Fair is now in it’s second year. Providing collectors, curators and the viewing public with an opportunity to preview and purchase work from a range of artists and contemporary arts organisations, who specialise in kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound, time-based and interdisciplinary new media art.

Artists exhibiting include Ivan Black, whose complex kinetic structures are inspired the DNA helix and iconic natural forms, and Dianne Harris, a founding director and curator of the Kinetica Museum, whose technological experiments explore the unseen realms of existence in the world around us. There’s also a rather fabulous Masters exhibit, which focuses on, rather surprisingly Masters, artists who have pioneered kinetic art during the twentieth century- from Carlos Cruz Diez’s geometric abstraction, which plays with colour and perception, to Desmond Paul Henry, one of the earliest protagonists of Computer Art and Graphics.

With a whole programme of events and performances taking place over the weekend, and over 35 galleries, and 150 artists taking part there’s bound to be something that captures your interest…whether that’s a family of holographic light beings, sculpting and drawing robots, an orchestral milk float, a giant vertical electronic wave.

The Kinetica Art Fair runs from 4-7 February, at the P3 Art Space, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS.

Posted by Victoria Loomes