Kinetic artists wanting to showcase their concepts for the kinetika™ festival have an extra month to get their ideas down on paper with the deadline extended until Friday 27 June.

The innovative competition and showcase is open to anyone - kinetic artists, creative home inventors, engineers, designers, architects, students to showcase their designs and finished works, says festival manager Lisa Haskell of The Taranaki Arts Festival Trust (TAFT).

“The feedback we are getting from people interested in entering is that additional time to develop their concepts would be appreciated” says Ms. Haskell.

“We have received numerous queries through our website – with an entry already submitted from as far away as Budapest!”

Fusing engineering design and movement into an eye-catching kinetic work, kinetika™ has five entry categories and nearly $20,000 in prize money.

The festival’s definition of kinetic is works or concepts that move due to natural forces or mechanical devices. These can include works that are powered by the sun or light, water or rain, air or wind or by human motion or electricity, says Ms. Haskell.

“The categories have been created to cater for a wide spectrum of design and fabrication capabilities,” explains Ms. Haskell. “They range from you design and build to you design and we build to Taranaki students design and we build to simply great design ideas.”

The festival’s Education Innovation partner, Massey University is offering scholarships to the value of $10,000 and the university’s School of Design will present an award for design innovation to the value of $1,000.

Entries will be presented in New Plymouth, Taranaki from 25 October - 9 November 2014. Library, museum and visitor information centre Puke Ariki will be the venue for the internal display of works while Puke Ariki Landing will be the location for the external display.