2024, Wearable
Project by Eva Kramer with technical support from Professor Dan Novy (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts)
Inspired by a historic carousel in Colorado, I designed and developed a wearable carousel skirt using digital fabrication techniques. I replicated the spokes of the carousel in Adobe Illustrator to create the structure of the skirt, then I laser cut these pieces from plywood and hand painted them with help from my friends. I experimented with 3D printing the carousel animals, but I landed on laser cutting animals and hand painting them as well, matching the rustic aesthetic of the panels. I used LED lights to give light to the carousel and a speaker to play carousel music. I also designed a belt mechanism to rotate the carousel around the waist using a continuous rotation servo motor programmed with Arduino. I modeled this in Rhino and 3D printed a small test version to display at Spring 2025 Open Studios at the Johnny Carson School for Emerging Media Arts in Lincoln, NE.
