"Kinetic Painting" is a particular kind of visual performance that is related to visual music created with color organs, but instead of using a mechanical device, it is performed with various kinds of projector (usually an overhead projector) live for an audience. Both Norman Perryman and The Lumonics Theater are examples of this type of visual music.
The catalog for Articulated Light: Abstract Film in America is on-line (RTF format) in the Vasulka archive. This is a good catalog with essays and historical information about the entire program.
Marcin Gizycki has a nice history of the development of avant-garde film in Poland. "There was no organized avant-garde film movement in Poland before WW2, which does not mean that there were no avant-garde films made. This paradox is easily explained. A number of artists more or less connected with avant-garde circles worked separately on films or film-related projects...."
I went to the Art Basel convention center exhibition on Saturday. I was standing in line when suddenly luck strikes me, or was it, an interesting woman, maybe a French collector, tapped me on the shoulder and says here, I am leaving, this is your permanent pass!
