(image above: Anna Hepler, from her Addendum exhibition) Due: Wed., Jan. 23 Create five improvised, unusually shaped inflatables, each at least the size of your head. You are supplied with colorful plastic and tape for this project. You are also welcome to use your own plastic and tape. You are also supplied with straws in …
Due: Mon. Jan. 28 Create a written list of 50 different ways you can transform a sewn sphere to create something new. Bring a paper copy of your list to turn in.
Due: Mon., Feb. 11 Basic primary forms can transform into expressive and complex shapes through a wide variety of physical manipulations. For our purposes, primary forms include spheres, cubes, cones, and cylinders. By exerting forces on the interior and/or exterior of the skin of the form, a whole world of new shapes, textures, and expressions …
(image: Cattle by Karyn Lao) Due: Mon., Feb. 25 For this assignment you will work with a partner to create an inflatable that alters our experience of a space within the library. You and your partner will use your objects from Part 1 of the Push/Pull assignment as studies for creating an inflatable sculpture and installation. Your …
Due: March 6 “Doppelgänger: (German “double walker”) is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune. In modern vernacular, the word has come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person.” (Wikipedia.org) Recreating an everyday object out of new materials, such as fabric, changes our experience of that object. …
Group Proposal Due: March 25 Our class will create inflatable environments for an evening concert held in collaboration with the Exploded Ensemble on Sat., May 4. Our environments will be the visual, spatial, and textural experience of the concert. Our class will be divided into four teams and each team will create a spatial environment …