Come join Carlin Wing in a Ball-Making Workshop! Learn about the history of ball construction and MAKE your own physical and virtual balls! We will make balls out of previously discarded playing balls, old sheets, liquid latex, vinegar, medical tape, bicycle inner tubes, Amazon packing materials, plastic bags, rubber bands, wine corks, and other such stuff. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to BRING stretchy and stretched-out shirts, socks missing their mates, rubber doo-dahs, and things lying around the backs of drawers that you have been meaning to get rid of. 3D scans of the balls made will become part of a shared asset library.

Carlin Wing is a media scholar, artist, and educator interested in the ways individual and collective gestures carry, transmit, and transmute history. Wing has exhibited nationally and internationally, is co-editor of The Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation and EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game, and has contributed writing to Public Books, Cabinet, Games and Culture, Racquet, and The Bulletin of the Serving Library. Her current book project, Bounce: A History of Balls, Walls, and Gaming Bodies, follows an array of bouncing balls through the histories of electronic and non-electronic games, across the spectrum of play, game, and sport, and into the domains of physics, material science, animation, and computing in order to describe the worldviews and cultural contests that have been embedded in the architectures, instruments, and gestures of games of ball. She is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Scripps College.