Kinetica, the first museum in the UK for kinetic art, will open in London on 6 October. The 7,200 sq ft museum, located within a new building over two floors in the Old Spitalfields Market, will feature performing robots, a mechanical writing machine that mimics Salvador Dalis signature and a digital starfish that responds to touch. Kinetic art uses movement, light, energy and sound for creative expression, and the new museum will showcase artists from the 1920s onwards, including seminal magnetic works by Nam June Paik, as well as Chico MacMurtries groundbreaking robots (pictured) and new work by contemporary artists including Daniel Chadwick, Chris Levine and Tim Lewis.
The museum aims to champion artistic innovation of all kinds through a permanent collection, a temporary exhibition programme and an ongoing series of events, workshops and talks.