Fairy Tales, Science Fiction and Freud: Telling Stories

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Dreams of Flying and Teeth. from Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. animated by Jody Culkin

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Struwwelpeter VR Promo: Augustus Who Would Not Eat His Soup

Based on the Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman. Promotional video for a Struwwelpeter VR World. Coming January 2017. A collaboration of Dylan Crow and Marianne R.…

Struwwelpeter VR Promo. The Story of Augustus Who Would Not Eat His Soup. Based on the Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman. Coming Spring 2017. A collaboration Dylan Crow and Marianne R. Petit. 

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Prototype of the new Little Suck-A-Thumb spread. Electronics/LEDs embedded after video was taken. Animated videos for all the stories were made earlier this summer. They’re currently accessible on each page via QR code.

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The Story of Flying Robert. Based on the Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman. Drawings, animation, and music by Marianne R. Petit

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Shockheaded Peter. Series promo. Based on the Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman. Drawings and animation by Marianne R. Petit. Music by Ithai Benjamin. 

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1975: A Prophetic Drama. In this scene, the premieress of England is communicating with her driver, Blitzen, via tablets on their foreheads that use electric waves. Based on a play written in 1875 and set in 1975 in the British Museum by American sculptor Harriet Hosmer.

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Birth: Dream Interpretation from Sigmund Freud

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We got two ribbons, a blue one for Editors Choice and a red one for Best in Class. A great surprise. Thank you!

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Marianne demos

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Our table at Maker Faire

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Pages from “Struwwelpeter”, Illustrated by Marianne Petit

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About Us

Marianne Petit  lives in New York City and Shanghai, China. Her work has appeared in international exhibitions, broadcast on IFC and PBS, and featured in numerous publications including Hyperallergic and Wired Magazine. Her pop-up books are in many collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Berlin Public Library, The British Library, as well as numerous University and private collections.. In New York, she is an Associate Arts Professor at ITP at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In China, she is the Director of the Interactive Media Arts Program at NYU Shanghai. She was previously the co-director of Greylock Arts, a non-commercial art space dedicated to new media practices in Western Massachusetts.

Jody Culkin is an artist who has shown her sculptures, photographs and new media pieces at museums and galleries throughout this country, including P.S 1, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum, the Bronx Museum, and internationally, including IV Salon y Coloquio International de Arte Digital in Havana, Cuba; Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome Italy; Amerika Haus in Cologne, Germany; Canterbury Arts Festival in Canterbury, England. Her work has been written about in Art Forum, Art in America, TimeOut New York among other publications. She received an Artists Fellowship in Sculpture from the New York Foundation on the Arts, a sponsored project grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a Design Award from the New York City Department of Transportation. She is currently a Professor at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College in the Media Arts and Technology Department.

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Fairy Tales, Science Fiction, and Freud: Telling Stories is...

work by Marianne Petit and Jody Culkin, told in a variety of media that include pop-up books with embedded electronics, animation, 3D papercraft, VR, and other materials and objects. These pieces are based on stories that originated in the 19th century: Marianne Petit’s work illustrates “Struwwelpeter”, a children’s book written in 1845 by Heinrich Hoffman, Jody Culkin’s work is based on “1975”, a science fiction play written in 1875 by sculptor Harriet Hosmer, and “The Interpretation of Dreams” written by Sigmund Freud in 1899. 

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Stills from Freud’s Dream Interpretation, animation by Jody Culkin

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