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Pleating Instrument: Martha & Jules

Hand puppet video to experiment with how the fabric can move in order to later apply it to an automated motion. We decided to set up the fabric…

Class 14: Sharing Ideas & Creating Teams

Today we will share our storyboards with each other. Then we will use a balloting system to build our teams for the final project. Towards the end of…

Assignment 6: Proposal and Proof of Concept

Due: Wed, Mar. 6, 11:59PM. For this sixth assignment, we are preparing the first stage of developing the final performance. It will serve as a project proposal, a…

Assignment 5 – Stephanie and Zeja

When it was time to implement our code on the capstan, we ran into several technical difficulties with the laptop we were using, as well as the capstan…

Class 13: Storyboarding Ideas

During this class period we will review Assignment 5 uploads. We will also take a look at past works from Assignments 1-4. We will also begin talking about…

Assignment 4 – Jean & Zeja

In this assignment, we are trying to explore the color and texture combination of the shibori dyed material we made in class. We chose to make the fabric…

Mini-Assignment: Storyboards

Due: In-Class on Thursday, 2/28 For next class period, each student will brainstorm and storyboard 5 different ideas for a final performance to take place in Kresge Concert…

Pleated Instrument – Judy

I started this assignment by looking up different pleating techniques and designs. There was one design that caught my eye and fueled my inspiration for this assignment. In…

Anna and Matt – Pleated Instrument

Matt and I were both attracted to the herring bone pattern and how its pleats allowed for fluid, springy movements across multiple axis. It was very easy to…

Pleated Instrument – Tim & Sarika

When we first began experimenting, we found ourselves initially trying to create an interesting shape with our pleated sample, which ended up as a cone/shell shape for the…