Puzzle This Lithuanian dance-theatre piece, which has toured internationally, explores how the world looks to the very young, in a playful performance involving brightly coloured shapes assembled into patterns and familiar objects.
The exhibition, which opens at Tate Modern in November and will run till spring 2016, will include a wide selection of Calder's motorised constructions and figurative wire portraits, often inspired by the circus or cabaret, alongside his suspended kinetic sculptures of vividly coloured shapes.
For example, pigeons exposed to coloured shapes, in which the colour was predictive of the reward, rapidly adjusted to novel colours (intra-dimensional shift) but not when the shape became predictive of the reward (extra-dimensional shift) [17,21].
As piebald camels strike on the yellow horizon with a colour pattern variety, and as these coloured shapes vary from animal to animal, it is no wonder that a piebald camel represents a particularly appreciated visual stimulation.
It's a colourful, character-based sequencer for kids: they drag coloured shapes into place on a timeline to trigger different sounds – and animations for the animals on-screen.
Thompson's complex layouts combined art with coloured shapes and unusual typographic arrangements.
Calder's most famous invention is the mobile – a loose constellation of coloured shapes suspended by wire or thread and gently moving in free space.
Instead of simulating sensations of movement by optical illusion, others designed kinetic panels and boxes in which coloured shapes revolved under electric power.
They have the swimsuits (ones with pockets ready to have foam fillers sewn in) and they have the neutral coloured shapes to slip inside.
Finally, more pixel art this week, in yet another example of the puzzle-RPG genre that gets you matching coloured shapes in order to slay monsters.
