Unweaving Gender
Unweaving Gender is an immersive VR installation where users physically pull a weight to unravel woven threads representing gender norms. Through embodied interaction, the project invites reflection on how gender roles are constructed and dissolved through repeated actions.
Keywords: Gender Performativity, Loom, Cyberfeminism
2025 Spring | Individual Work
VR Installation | Unity, Arduino, Rhino
Research and Design Ideation
Technical System
Documentation
Installation Sketch
Final Installation Sketch
Uduino and IR sensor
Harware Connection
Test the Sensor
Arduino Code
Uduino and C# read the sensor value
Implement sensor into pvc tube
Attach tube to pedestal
Implement sensor and arduino in pedestal
Laser Cut description
Installation Outcome
Weaving alignment test in Unity
Alignment test
Sound trigger test
Shader Graph controls a snippet of thread
Modeling warp and weft in Rhino
Shader Graph control a complete thread
Shader Graph for appear and disappear
Test different material
Test thinner piece
Test different material
Add variation to weaving piece
Test transparent material and changed environment
Add panorama skybox
Add mechanical loom background sound
Material Variation
Thread disappers as sensor value increases
Outcome
"Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being” (Butler, 45).
Exhibiton
2025 New York University Shanghai IMA Capstone Show
