KAT LEE
HORNSTEIN
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SENSE OF SELF
Interactive Sculpture Series with BareConductive Touchboard, 3-D Printing
SUMMARY // MY ROLE // PROCESS PHOTOGRAPHY and MORE INFO
Interactive Sound Sculpture
2017
2017
Summary
Sense of Self offers an exploratory experience through human-like, interactive sculptures. These pieces, avatars of self, born of societal expectation, give us opportunity to reflect on graphic procedures we take on in order to uniformly attain a false, homogenized appearance. You become the accomplice in this exchange.
SENSE OF SELF : Sound Sculpture from Kat Lee Hornstein on Vimeo.
A 3-D printed bust with detatchable components that trigger an audio response when added or removed.
The SOUND SCULPTURE investigates the act of surgical alteration. Modular features can be removed and replaced, triggering an audio response. The sound experience may make you uncomfortable, however it is indicative of common practice in seeking perfection.
Going under the knife is now routine; operations like pulling back eyelids and shaving down the jawbone are routine, sometimes even expected, across the globe.
SENSE OF SELF : Skin Sculpture from Kat Lee Hornstein on Vimeo.
An acrylic mask with hundreds of poured laytex scraps, to be peeled and discarded by the audience.
The SKIN SCULPTURE focuses on the “beauty” standards of skin color and quality. Layers and layers of latex “flesh” are stripped away and discarded, piece after piece. The stripping sounds and sensations are disturbing, yet ... oddly satisfying. The material feels life-like. The act itself asks you to consider violent beautification processes, like skin bleaching and chemical peels, that we undertake in an effort to perfect our largest external organ: skin.
RESEARCH and APPLIED THEMES
● LOST CULTURAL IDENTITY ● HOMOGENIZING BEAUTY STANDARDS ● PHYSICAL SHAME
● FIRST IMPRESSIONS & STEREOTYPES ● PLASTIC SURGERY ●
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● LOST CULTURAL IDENTITY ● HOMOGENIZING BEAUTY STANDARDS ● PHYSICAL SHAME
● FIRST IMPRESSIONS & STEREOTYPES ● PLASTIC SURGERY ●
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THE TEAM
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This project was completed in the span of a month by a team of six from the Masters’ cohort at Ravensbourne. Each participant brought a different strength to the table based on their concentrations, taking time to involve every team member in each stage of the process and teaching our fellow creatives new mediums.
Sarah Dousse // Communication Design
KP Kriengkomol // Interactive Digital Media
Kat Hornstein // Interactive Digital Media
Sandy Yun: // Fashion
Alliana Esguerra // Rapid Prototyping/3D Printing
Khadija Radwan // Rapid Prototyping/3D Printing
This project was completed in the span of a month by a team of six from the Masters’ cohort at Ravensbourne. Each participant brought a different strength to the table based on their concentrations, taking time to involve every team member in each stage of the process and teaching our fellow creatives new mediums.
Sarah Dousse // Communication Design
KP Kriengkomol // Interactive Digital Media
Kat Hornstein // Interactive Digital Media
Sandy Yun: // Fashion
Alliana Esguerra // Rapid Prototyping/3D Printing
Khadija Radwan // Rapid Prototyping/3D Printing
MY ROLE
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All team members were consistenly involved, but the Sound Sculpture was my main focus. I sourced the audio, and worked alongside my fellow IDM candidate KP, using the Bare Conductive touch board to bring our ideas to life.
We had a circuit completion issue at the last minute, and I solved this by using what we had – aluminum foil – applying them in a way that was both functional and aesthetically on point for the concept.
I streamlined the visual language of our work throughout the entire process, to create a strong “gallery” experience despite the limitations of the space.
All team members were consistenly involved, but the Sound Sculpture was my main focus. I sourced the audio, and worked alongside my fellow IDM candidate KP, using the Bare Conductive touch board to bring our ideas to life.
We had a circuit completion issue at the last minute, and I solved this by using what we had – aluminum foil – applying them in a way that was both functional and aesthetically on point for the concept.
I streamlined the visual language of our work throughout the entire process, to create a strong “gallery” experience despite the limitations of the space.
PROCESS PHOTOGRAPHY and MORE INFO
https://katleehornsteinpg02.persona.co/CYCLE-1
This is an extensive blog outlining every step of this work, where much additional research, photography, and video documentation can ve viewed.
KAT LEE
HORNSTEIN
ABOUT // WORK // CONTACT // SOCIAL