Featured Work From The Gallery: Week 8

You may have noticed our new online Gallery. It’s a place where creative professionals can showcase their portfolio of work, gain exposure, build their network, find collaborators, and become eligible for funding opportunities like The Studio. It’s also a place where fans of cutting edge creative work can discover new artists and inspiring projects. Each week we’ll be selecting a few of our favorites and bringing you the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer. To have your work featured, submit your tech-powered projects to the Gallery.

Christiaan Zwanikken: Kinetic Art + Robotics + New Sculptural Media

Like a mad scientist with a taxidermy hobby, Christiaan Zwanikken creates moving installations from skeletons, stuffed animals and plants in a 400-year-old monastery in Portugal. He blurs the lines between life and death and plays with dichotomies like nature and machines by resurrecting dead rabbits, bats and falcons with motors, micro-computers and pistons. His “futuristic zoo” of interactive creatures even captured the interest of filmmaker Jarred Alterman, who made a documentary about Zwanikken. Watch the trailer [here](http://vimeo.com/15456793 ).

Ersinhan Ersin: Sides&Souls

By combining performance art and projection mapping, Ersinhan Ersin plays within ever-changing sets of cracked walls, gusts of fluttering bubbles and shadows. In the clip, it’s hard to decide whether she controls her environment or whether it imposes itself onto her. Ersin describes her performance as “a small reflection of the body driven away in life… [and] presents the story of all of us from birth to death.”

Shiping Toohey: TeKila Dress

Shiping Toohey created an LED dress inspired by looking at tequila under a microscope. To replicate the geometric patterning and colors in the liquor, Toohey laser cut clear acrylic into hundreds of tessellated pieces that mimic the microscopic cells. There’s also an interactive component to the dress—although tequila makes one’s movements far from graceful, an accelerometer beautifully changes the light according to the wearer’s movements.