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from the STRP Festival site: Cyborg Arena hosted by R gine Debatty Or are humans better after all? On 11 April the STRP Expo+ programme showcases artists who use technology to augment their bodies. Cyborg artists, so to speak. What is the result of this marriage between artist and machine? Artist Joan Healy uses her work Cyberskin to playfully [...]
Ying Gao - Five Ways to Tell a Story about Fashion
Canadian fashion designer Ying Gao, born in China (*1973), playfully explores the aesthetic potential at the interface of fashion, art and technology. She uses software to conceptually develop ingenious patterns, and subtly infuses interactive technology into some of her garments. These garments appear vivid, ephemeral and fluid in shape: one of the dresses vibrantly unfolds [...]
Computational design and fashion
A couple of projects seen back in September at the C.STEM exhibition in Turin. The theme of the event this year was: Breeding Objects - Computational Design: from Digital Fabrication to Mass-Customization. Ebru Kurbak and Mahir Yavuz’ NewsKnitter project comments on the manipulation by the media in Turkey. Live data streams of information are used [...]
*Soft technology* Call for Artist-in-Residency Proposals
V2_Lab, the artistic Research & Development (aRt&D) department of V2_ Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has a vacancy for a three-month artist?s residency from January 15 to April 15, 2009. *Deadline for applications: December 7th 2008* To download your application form please follow this link: http://files.v2.nl/portal/Applicationform_AIR.rtf Background V2_Lab has an extensive history in the field of wearable technology. In recent years, [...]
RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion
After the Benaki Museum in Athens and before the Fashion Museum in Antwerp and the Museum of Design in London, Mudam presents RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion. This exhibition conceived by ATOPOS, constitutes a research result on paper clothing, a very widespread phenomenon in the United States at the end of the sixties, but little known by [...]
Medic Esthetic
Behold the beauty of imperfection! These white or skin-coloured shoes made of synthetic plaster, bandages, stainless steel, and other medical materials, aim to expose the taboo on physical deformities. Designer Gwendolyn Huskens Department Man and Identity at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (NL). Photo by Ren van der Hulst
New Book: Fashion Geek
Diana Eng just came out with a new book, Fashion Geek, with a reference to Project Runway next to the byline, of course. Here is the book description: “High fashion goes digital with Diana Eng! In Fashion Geek, Diana pioneers an emerging generation of tech savvy women crafters (or would-be crafters) who demand stylish yet practical designs [...]
Wearable Forest-feeling of belonging to nature
Artist: Hiroki Kobayashi, Ryoko Ueoka and Michitaka Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan Wearable Forest bio-acoustically interacts with a remote forest. The clothing design allows users interact with distant wildlife through the use of a remote controlled speaker and microphone set up over a network. This gives users an opportunity to feel at one with nature, even [...]
A locket for the 21st century
LAByrinth/Elaine Young has a jewelry line that lets you encapsulate a DNA of your choice: person, plant or animal. Currently she’s showing her other line of products, HOST, at the show 100% Design Tokyo. All her products utilize and/or take inspiration from biotechnology.
