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Item Bio light : replicating sea animal bodies and movement through costume technology(2013-05) MacCorkle, Susan Allison; Glavan, James; Mickey, SusanBio Light: Replicating Sea Animal Bodies and Movement is a project that seeks to answer several questions: How much of the human body can be obscured by a costume while maintaining full range of motion? What materials can be used to best affect when building animal costumes with fluid movements? These questions were answered by building two experimental costumes that required systematic testing of materials. The animals designed and built were a Greater Blue-Ringed Octopus and a Leafy Sea Dragon. The animals are as realistic as possible with highly detailed features and skin textures. The shape of the animals is as true to nature as possible while still giving the operator a wide range of movement. Each animal has a distinctly different anatomy, skin quality and locomotion allowing for a broader assessment of materials and experimentation.Item Bolstered : armor and the stage(2016-05) Womble, Kristin Kara; Glavan, James; Ortel, Sven; Habeck, MichelleBy creating three distinctly different suits of armor, I am exploring how lighting and projected media can be used to transform the surface and emphasize the architecture of costumes. Working with a Costume Designer, together we found inspiration in historical research and modern art, from which she created renderings for me to base my work. I have chosen to work with three distinctly different materials for the creation of these pieces: thermoplastic, leather and fiberglass. I chose these materials primarily because crafts artisans in the theatre most often use them to create armor, and secondarily because I have varying levels of knowledge in the use of each medium. I began the project with a vast knowledge of thermoplastic, a base level of comfort with leather and no experience with fiberglass. I have been able to gain training in thermoplastic and leather through the Costume Technology program here at the University of Texas at Austin; for fiberglass however, I have been charged with finding another source of expertise. Through my family’s long history in the automotive collision repair industry, I have had the opportunity to train under an experienced fiberglass/paint technician, as well as having access to the facilities required to generate the pieces. Using music and choreography, I endeavor to create a performance that showcases how each material interacts with lighting, projections, and the mobility, or lack there of, in the pieces. I am studying the dancers movements, while also gathering impertinent information regarding how each piece reacts under different media treatments.Item T(2013-05) Vu, Bich N.; Mickey, Susan E.; Isackes, Richard; Stoney, JohnT is a thesis installation that explores the semiotics of public dress through the fundamentals of sculpture: mass and form, material and process, site and context. This exhibition consists of four T-shirt shaped objects made out of steel, aluminum, talcum, and sugar . A T-shirt is arguably a universally recognizable article of clothing, but its familiarity when juxtaposed with everyday material challenges the social identity of dress. As a theatrical designer experimenting with sculpture, Bich Vu investigates the ways clothing and space facilitates a narrative. The different arrangements of the objects within the installation are performances created in collaboration with guest directors and choreographers from the Department of Theatre & Dance.