Featured Blog Posts – August 2009 Archive (13)

Kinetic-Energy Powered LED Dress

The Itchy Dress is a project from the interactive fashion collection “Captain Electric and Battery Boy” — a "code name" for a collection of garments that passively harness energy directly from the body and actively allow for power generation by the user.

From the video, it appears that the act of rubbing the circular tubes around the neck of the dress generates enough energy to light up a string of… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 30, 2009 at 10:52pm — No Comments

All is full of gLove!

Last weekend I collaborated with artist Yann Seznec (aka the Amazing Rolo) on a UV glove which allows the wearer to draw on a wall that has been covered in UV paint. This was a development on some work created by Yann for the exhibition Rough Cut Nation at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (check out Yann's blog!). Here's a video showing a bit of the glove being made and then some shots of it in action at the… Continue

Added by Kristina on August 30, 2009 at 9:12am — No Comments

Interactive E-textile Collar

Developed in 2007 by Sarah Kettley, Stille is an interactive textile collar which delivers intimate sounds to the wearer. The e-textile neckpiece is conceptually based on:

"the visual experience of Australia combined with the discussion and emotion experienced by local Canberran's in the midst of a serious drought."

The interactive collar plays sounds of… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 27, 2009 at 11:23am — No Comments

Machine Felted Tilt Sensor

Adrian Freed, a research director at UC Berkeley's Center for New Music & Audio Technologies (CNMAT) has created a felted tilt sensor using Eeonyx conductive felt. The conductive felt was felted on a non-conductive fabric using an… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 25, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Knitting, embroidering and crocheting with Conductive Thread

Knitted Mittens with Conductive Thread

I personally don't have the patience to knit but recently I've been thinking more and more of integrating conductive threads and yarns into three-dimensional objects. In my search to find examples of knitwear using conductive threads, I discovered Fionnuala Murphy's conductive mittens.

Mittens using conductive thread

It looks like she integrates the conductive… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 24, 2009 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

VIDA 12.0 - Call for Entries

VIDA 12.0

I highly encourage anyone with interactive wearable work that either exhibits emerging behaviours, evolves over time, reacts with their environment and seems to have a life of their own, etc to apply.

I have not seen any wearables exhibited at VIDA and I think this is a great opportunity to introduce wearable technology as an emerging art form. PLUS you have a shot at winning some cash:

First prize: €18,000, Second prize:… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 19, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The Human Synthesizer

To make a human synthesizer, all you need is a few arduinos, a bucket of conductive paint and a surface area of bare skin. Using Bare, a non-toxic conductive ink that can be applied directly to the skin, musician Calvin Harris transforms 15 bikini clad performers into human switches that play musical… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 18, 2009 at 8:38am — No Comments

Music Videos + High Tech Costumes

Mika—We are Golden

Moritz Waldemeyer creates yet another high tech, laser outfit—this time for singer-songwriter Mika's latest music video "We are Golden."

Check out the "We are Golden" music video… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 13, 2009 at 10:38am — No Comments

Pa++ern: Embroidery via Tweets

Embroidery via Tweets

Japanese Artists Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi hooked up an embroidery machine to Twitter that translates tweets into beautifully embroidered T-shirts. The embroidered tweet T's use a unique language that instructs the embroidery machines to create the designs.

Embroidery via Tweets

Custom language for…

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Added by Syuzi on August 11, 2009 at 7:54pm — 1 Comment

Have you heard of Claytronics?

Tiny programmable computers called "catoms" (somehow) in the future will program and arrange themselves into forms. Watch the video — totally… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 10, 2009 at 9:43pm — 1 Comment

ISEA 2009 Conference

ISEA 2009

For those of you in Europe, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2009 conference will be taking place on August 23 - September 1 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. ISEA is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

The conference this is loaded with AMAZING… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 10, 2009 at 9:24pm — No Comments

Smart E-Textile Symposium @ IFAI Expo 09

The Industrial Fabrics Association International Expo is taking place this year on September 23-25, 2009 at the San Diego Convention Center.

At this year's conference, they will have a Smart Textiles Solutions symposium filled with a great venue of speakers and experts from the field.

I am planning on attending the session and will cover… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 9, 2009 at 8:41pm — 1 Comment

Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference

TEI Conference

So I've been away on holiday (hence the lack posts) and some more time sensitive postings have unfortunately slipped by. Deadline for submissions for the TEI '10 is unfortunately August 10 for studios(hands-on workshops) and papers. For those of you who have everything in order, I highly recommend that you apply.

TEI is the fourth international conference dedicated to… Continue

Added by Syuzi on August 9, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment