I thought I would start this blog by defining my view of four dimensionalism. There are actually two different interpretations. It’s interesting to note that both views are interpreted in art. The first view (philosophers call it the ontological view) is seeing an object in terms of time, and as a result the object shows movement. A sculpture that moves can be caused by wind, motors, light, heat, etc. becoming 4 dimensional art (this moving Bicycle Wheel sculpture - 1913 by Marcel Duchamp - is a good example). Of course moving pictures and dance are also 4 dimensional arts, but I will mostly focus on kinetic sculpture, painting, and graphic arts in this blog.
In this first view of 4 dimensionalism, the dimensions are expressed as the following:
- 1st dimension - a line
- 2nd dimension - a flat plane – a drawing or painting on a piece of paper
- 3rd dimension - a shape – a sculpture
- 4th dimension - a shape moving in a given space. – a sculpture moving through space
The other view is called spacial 4th dimension in which length, width, and height have one more addition (not time). This gets into some physics; so bear with me. First it means that one dimensional lines together make a 2 dimensional plane (let’s say a square). Then 2 dimensional planes together make a 3 dimensional shape (a cube). Then that would mean; 3 dimensional shapes together would define a 4 dimensional thing (called a tesseract or a hypercube). Ok if you have not fallen asleep…here is a sculpture that follows this school of thought:
"Octacube" by Adrian Ocneanu
So in this blog, there will be many additions of videos showing 4 dimensional art that I hope you will enjoy.
Very nice.
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