Where does reality end and imagination begin?

UNSKILLED. GLITTER. PAREIDOLIA.

Palmira Marlene Kotte

Tool 1
How to use your off-hand to create tattoos.
Your untrained hand – the so called off-hand – helps you let go of any sense of embarrassment while drawing.
What do we associate with control, and what with a loss of control? That’s what this video is about. Drawing with your unskilled hand, breaking free from conventions – it’s about making the personal public. 

Tool 2
How to use glitter as a tool – arranged food, each adorned with rhinestones. 
The glitter on the arrangement is placed to create an anamorphic effect, revealing the words "Eat Me" on the food. Using flash photography to make the rhinestones on the food really stand out and the food more interesting. 

Tool 3
How to use objects (in which faces can be recognized) to animate characters.
We constantly see faces in objects. What if these objects suddenly started to move in sync with our own facial expressions? What if that made them seem a little more human? An electrical outlet, a faucet, a fan, a trash can shaped like an ice cream cone, and a light fixture all move in response to the movements we make with our own faces. 

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A project made in the course

What’s a Tool?

Does the tool change the hand that uses it? Students explored several tools to build design projects, documenting their process with vertical video. Each video shows one tool’s arc: from idea finding to experiment, design, and explanation. Creative tools shape what we create.
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