62-475 ACTIVATED ANAMORPHS: Performative Inhabitables and Interactive Prostheses

10 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This interdisciplinary studio course is centered around the relationship between wearable sculpture, prosthetic apparatus, DIY costume, movement, and identitybased performance. The course emphasizes handson experience, the development of visual skills, craftsmanship, conceptual development, and performance techniques. Class time will be spent designing and fabricating performative devices that alter, augment, mask, and transform the body and its inherent abilities. Various lectures, workshops, activities, presentations, and critiques will be included as an integral part of the learning process. Guest instructors from across the College of Fine Arts and outside of the institution will also provide lectures, and workshops that offer students multiple perspectives and techniques. Students will work in a variety of media, unveiling the meanings expressed through materials and investigating new ways to interact with our physical environments through explorations in the adaptation, translation, enhancement, exaggeration, modification, and mutation of the human body. The course will involve student collaboration across disciplines, as well as rehearsals and public performances TBD.

Prerequisites: none listed

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