Explore the journey of Digital Knowledge Center fellows through their personal reflections and documentation of their fellowship projects.
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Andrew’s Video Essay #3
It has genuinely been a while since I talked about this project and where I am at with this project. A note to any students reading this: October is one of the hardest months to exist as a senior. Even though I took a week off from posting anything, I still have updates about my project. I took a trip to DC the other weekend with my friend– and a huge feature on the video essay– Billie. We met in Theatre History and ended up bonding over performance art, so of course I asked her to see a weird stage…
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Evelynestallation Blog Post #5!
Hey everyone! Thanks for reading today’s blog post! For the past two weeks, I’ve looked at several big questions that will dictate the course of this entire project. The first question is how to power the lights. They run off of 5 volt energy, and a typical wall socket puts out 240 volts. That’s a huge difference. Fortunately, Amazon sells a product that steps down the voltage from a wall socket to 5 volts. Here’s the link- it even comes with a little piece that lets me attach wires to the positive and negative outputs! Amazon link DC power converter…
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Second Steps: 3D Molecular Representations
3D Printing The Issue… The Simplest: The Wipe Tower The issue is PrusaSlicer, the software I use, does not “allow” soluble material to be printed with a wipe tower. This is not true and can be bypassed by following these steps: Print Settings (Top Tab) –>Support Material (Left Side Tab) –> Top Contact Z Distance set to “0 (soluble)” This allows for the wipe tower to be enabled in the “Multiple Extruders” side tab by checking the box. Subsequently the options “support material/raft/skirt extruder” and “support material/raft interface extruder” can be set to the extruder of your choice containing the…
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Wrapping up!
Hello once more! It has been quite a bit since my last post! (not really because I just posted it, but it has been a while since I wrote it!!!!) Anyway, goofs aside, there is so much to update about. I can’t say that I have officially finished the 3D printed bagpipes yet, as I […]
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Andrew’s Video Essay #2
Okay, I have to go back in time to talk about this moment. It’s April 2024. I am feeling generally horrible. Five months before this, I was told I would never be able to do something I am getting my degree in. Instead of creating art, I start writing a senior proposal with the basic in a published paper titled “Nightmares and Dreams on Progesterone: Trans* Embodiment and Intermedia.” The published paper was essentially an autobiography/instruction guide for art from a creative named Lorelei d’Andriole, and her work in performance art. I fell in love with this particular paper, and…