The NEW Category Entrant: ART+COM, Berlin The Kinetic Sculpture for the BMW Museum

Credits
Media Type: Mechatronical Installation
Corporate Name of Client: BMW Group
Creative Director: Joachim Sauter
Art Directors: Jussi Ängeslevä/Patrick Kochlik/Petra Trefzger
Production Company: MKT AG, Olching
Producer: Peter Haschkamp
Sound Design Company: idee und klang, Basel
Sound Designer: Ramon De Marco
Designer: Susanne Traeger
Programmer: David Siegel/Simon Schießl
Project Manager: Gert Monath

Basic description of the project:
The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the form-finding process in design. The installation consists of 714 metal spheres hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors. Covering a six-square-metre area, the spheres animate a seven-minute long mechatronic narrative, creating a representation of the form-finding process in different variations. Moving chaotically at first, the sculpture evolves through several competing forms and eventually resolves into a final shape whose profile hints at one of many well-known, historic and current, BMW automobiles.