"Extruding and Spinning" opens Thursday and runs through March 3 at the Haunch of Venison gallery in Chelsea.

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Ms Pape's tribal garment has red cloth filled with feather-covered balls extruding body parts and surrounded by insects.

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This single work, made up of 53 low-lying pieces, was fashioned by a computer-directed machine extruding coils of cement.

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ITP's Danne Woo and Matt Richardson will be showing of some of the school's projects, including the kinetically-powered Circuit Board, the Descriptive Camera and the condiment-extruding Burritob0t.

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After that, it's simply a process of getting that file to the printer (via USB, SD card or wahtever), which converts them into a 3D plastic object by extruding hot plastic onto a moving platform.

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