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Thinker Maker Space of CYENS presents “Finding forms: Creating and capturing body-scale fabric sculptures”, a workshop by resident artists Divleena Singh in collaboration with Dimiitriii.
This is a collaborative workshop focused on creating and 3D-capturing simple membrane forms. It arises from an enquiry into alternative ways of generating forms for sculpture by co-creating with lightweight materials. Stretchable membrane or fabric lends itself to the formation of minimal forms (such as soap bubbles), balanced by rigid sticks and participants’ own bodies—a concept referred to as form-finding.
Participants will begin with hands-on exploration, using stretchable materials and sticks at a hand-scale (small scale) to practice the concept of lightweight membrane sculptures. Building on this, they will collectively create large, body-scale sculptures up to 2 meters high, employing larger membrane fabrics, larger sticks, and their own bodies as part of the structures.
As a next step, the large sculptures will be digitally captured to create three-dimensional twins using photogrammetry. Participants will also have the opportunity to observe and film the dynamic shape changes in these large sculptural forms by moving inside them.
Finally, the outcomes of this collaborative process will be prepared for presentation in the upcoming group show of the TMS resident artists, with credits given to the participants.
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Divleena has a background in architecture as well as Industrial design. She uses a combination of curiosity driven, research-through-making and computational explorations to make self-supporting, lightweight forms rooted in tensegrity principles and traditional craft sensibilities. By passing on some control to natural forces and material intelligence, she aims for her work to express that beauty and efficiency are one, and to inspire curiosity and tactile exploration. She enjoys recreational math and microscopy. Currently she is an artist-in-residence at Thinker Maker Space, CYENS, Nicosia.
WEBSITE | divleena.weebly.com
SOCIAL MEDIA | linkedin/divleena-s
Dimiitriii was born in Thessaloniki in 1999, they graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a specialization in new media in the visual arts. They are based in Nea Michaniona and also active internationally. They have exhibited their work at festivals such as the Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM. They have been selected in various interdisciplinary residencies such as The Founding Lab 2023 in Linz – Austria, MusicMaker Hacklab in Berlin – Germany and the Thinker Maker Space residency in collaboration with the MuseumLab of the CYENS organization in Nicosia – Cyprus. In Greece they have been selected as a STERNA organisation fellow in Nisyros and also they were a member of the Inspire Project 2023 at MOMus.
SOCIAL MEDIA | instagram/d_i_m_ii_t_r_iii
