[2025]Making Motion
Making Motion
Making Motion examines the practice of shaping kinetic (physical) motion in large textiles. Aerial Sketching, is a kinetic installation which allows live animating floating organza fabric with the body. It changes the relation between audience and textile, essentially pushing the visitor to become the designer, rather than a passive observer. This proposes an alternative to the existing discourse where movement often reflects pre-rendered states. By combining the complex movement of soft materials with a motion-tracking interface, Aerial Sketching offers a highly engaging and performative interaction with textile – it is driven by the subtlety and nuance that human movement has to offer. The installation can record sequences of interaction to echo earlier textile animations at will – effectively shifting the timeline of observing and making kinetic expression.
Silver organza textile has a highly dynamic visual appearance – catching both light and wind as it moves.
Interaction is recorded, producing samples of kinetic design to physically replay at will.
These samples are frozen with Kinetic Captures: Golden point clouds representing the actual tracking data driving kinetic motion.
These samples are frozen with Kinetic Captures: Golden point clouds representing the actual tracking data driving kinetic motion.
Aerial Sketching is scheduled for exhibition on Dutch Design Week in October.