1/ COLLECTIVE RESEARCH Daan Roosegaarde Lotus

Lotus by Roosegaarde is a living wall made out of smart foils which fold open in response to human behavior. Walking by ‘Lotus’, hundreds of aluminium foils unfold themselves in an organic way; generating transparent voids between private and public.

MATERIAL:

Curved wall, length 400 cm, width 50 cm, height 200 cm, with smart foils (several thin layers of Mylar) lamps, electronics, sound and other media.

TECHNOLOGY:

When approached, the big silver dome lights up and opens its flowers. Its behavior moves from soft breathing to dynamic mood when more people interact. The light slowly follows people, creating an interactive play of light and shadow. Hundreds of aluminum foils unfold themselves in an organic way; generating transparent voids between private and public. The smart Lotus foil is specially developed by Studio Roosegaarde and their manufacturers, and is made from several thin layers of Mylar that fold open and close when touched by light.

EFFECT:

The graphic representations of the lotus flower on the walls, and the deep bass sound, transforms the Renaissance environment into a ‘Techno-Church’. This high-tech craftsmanship is similar to the innovative thinking of the church’s architecture of the 16th century.

1/ COLLECTIVE RESEARCH Catherine Wales – Project DNA

Catherine Wales has a studio in New York and London. Project DNA is the three-dimensional accessories collection from London- based designer, Catherine Wales. Catherina combines high fashion, technology, and science, to change conventional methods of textile constructions and push the boundaries of digital fabrication in high fashion. Inspired by identity and the visual structure of human chromosomes.

MATERIAL USED:

white nylon, 3D printer, fabric, ball and socket components, acrylic mirror

 

TECHNOLOGY USED:

3D printed components of ball and sockets to fit in each other and move any different way. She created a digital avatar for the person it is made for, using a 3D scanner so she can make it wearable for any body shape. She created the attire using a combination of engineering programs to model complicated joints and creative software to build the sculptural forms. She uses nylon because all 3D printed models should be flexible.

EFFECT:

Can be ordered to fit any shape. Everybody could have their own body scanned and order clothes that fit perfectly. Catherine was inspired by identity and the visual structure of human chromosomes, this shows in the way she made the sculptures with components of ball and sockets, so they could move. The project embraces developing technology in such way that consumers could have their own clothing made. She combines technology, 3D printing, which is something grown from technology, with shapes that are grown naturally: the human body.

 

 

1/ COLLECTIVE RESEARCH – Threeasfour Mer Ka Ba

09/2013 MER KA BA Exhibition, The Jewish Museum (New York City)

A Ready-to-wear collection by the design collective threeASFOUR.

“It reveals the varied visual aspects of Nature and its inherent sacred geometries through a topographic approach. Within the collection, surface shapes, elevations and textures relate to each other as well as to the terrain of the human body.””The archetypal language of sacred geometry, which is inherent in nature’s design, is a key in understanding the universe from the microcosm (which is within), to the macrocosm (which includes everything that surrounds us)’. The New York based trio of fashion designers Gabriel Asfour, Adi Gil, and Angela Donhauser, have created a collection of 3D printed, laser cut silk and origami folded dresses that reflect their origins from Lebanon, Israel and Tajikistan, respectively. When put together, are symbolic of the energy fields that the body transitions through as it ascends to a higher plane.’

MATERIAL USED:

Lasercut, 3D printer, fabric, origami folding, mirrored structure and projections.

TECHNOLOGY USED:

A collection of 3D printed, laser cut silk and origami folded dresses that reflect the origins of their homelands. The trio explored new mediums in mirrored structures and projections. The structures reflects on itself and forms a multi-dimensional pointed star, aka a hexagram. The installation represents material and spiritual worlds, symbolic for the energy of the human body.

EFFECT/EXPERIENCE:

The geometric patterns make us feel connected to the dimensions of all things created. The installation invites visitors into a moody and textural space, this space represents the geometrics in the sacred synagogues and mosques. The clothes are both wearable art and a platform for their free-spirited philosophy.

They combine something rather new, innovative, and techy with old spiritual believes and ancient cultures.

 

1/ COLLECTIVE RESEARCH – Richard Clarkson, Blossom.

PRESENTATION

 

RICHARD CLARKSON

New York + New Zealand product & furniture designer. With a family background in farming and metal working industries Richard’s designs offer an innovative perspective on traditional materiel ideologies and combine them with new technologies and opportunities.

PROJECTS

‘Cloud’ is an Arduino-controlled, motion-triggered lightning & thunder performance. It is also a music-activated visualizer and suspended speaker unit.

‘Cradle’ is about creating a safe, comfortable, and relaxing space in which the user can dissipate the overstimulation of their senses.

PROJECT: BLOSSOM

 

 

MATERIAL USED

3D Printer / Multi-Material 3D print (simultaneous deposition of different build materials in a single print) /Tango Black (Flexibel Rubber) / Fullcure 720 (an almost crystal-clear, solid material)

Curved, Hollow Petals, Air, Ink, Solidworks (design program)

TECHNOLOGY USED:

Blossom, the world’s first inflatable 3D print, is an interactive installation with a group of closed flowers, blosseming when you pump air in them. The heart of the design is from mixed material, so it can be flexibel. The materials used try to get as close as possible to organic forms, The variation offers an opportunity to generate complex forms and dynamic structures that are otherwise impossible to make. Blossom specifically focused on two materials in particular: Tango Black (a rubbery, flexible material) and Fullcure 720 (an almost crystal-clear, solid material). Each bloom was created uniquely in Solidworks. The petals are made of the flexibel material, and the heart of the more solid one. As air is pumped into the chamber in the heart of the flower, it causes the inside of the petal to push against the outside of the petal front of it. As each petal pushes on the one in front of it, the bloom blossoms.

DOCUMENTATION:

EXPERIENCE/INTERACTION

The flowers bloom like real flowers do when you gently push into the indicated airpump. As air is pumped into the chamber in the heart of the flower, it causes the inside of the petal to push against the outside of the petal front of it. As each petal pushes on the one in front of it, the bloom blossoms. The solid part stays still. People can push 4 airpumps which are connected to different flowers. It is an interactive installation. The effect is that Clarkson created something natural, organic, by something that is totally not organic but manufactured. There are no electronics, it works on air-pressure. It almost becomes a game of finding the different colored insides of every flower.

PDF presentation artist download link

https://mega.co.nz/#!1FsD0ZjJ!-f5scPV-u95QkCJJLhHjQf1lQkeycIgfuAwt3a3We64

Lockdown aftermovie // OLD ARTIST

 

Material:

 

Graphic design, video, visual effects, video, festival, camera

 

TECHNOLOGY

 

The video is an aftermovie for the dub step party Lockdown in Amsterdam made by Chris Rudz. The video referres to an old gameboy game, with visual effects that look like you are in a video game. Visual effect are applied on certain events in the video or actions as though it were actions performed in a video game. The video is made from the perspective of the subject, a human going to a festival.

EFFECT

The video has a alien feeling, it is a real life experience and video, we recognize certain things but because of the visual effects it isn’t the real world and we connect it to a video game. By some of the visual effects and bright colors we get a trippy feeling.

Bj”ork – New moon // OLD ARTIST

 

Material:

Graphic design, visual effect, videocamera, projection, imagery of the moon, stop-motion

TECHNOLOGY

 

The song is part of an album where each song in the album features a theme related to nature.

The song is based on four different sounds. Bjork explained: with each new moon we complete a cycle and are offered renewal, to take risks, to connect with other people, to love, to give. It was directed by Bjork and Inez&Vinoodh, recorder spontaneously. Still images of the moon in time-lapse appear sometimes through the video by visual effects.

 

EFFECT:

 

Moon creates an otherworldly effect. It doesn’t refer to a space so you can imagine it being out of space due to the moon and visual effects. We can’t relate to the forms and she moves rather weirdly, shocking movements. It doesn’t feel human.

yeasayer – glass of the microscope // OLD ARTIST

MATERIALS:

 

microscope, micro-camera, ink, machinedrive, projectie, visual effects, kinect

 

TECHNOLOGY

 

 

Glass of the microscope is a clip for Yeasayer, which revolves around two scientists looking for a cure for a mysterious epidemic. Through the clip we see them testing various things and looking in their microscope, and on a big projection. It is located in an old medical-research university in the Netherlands, where scientist Antoine van Leeuwenhoek developed a microscope. The space is filled with machinery and technology. Moving machine.Different things are filmed through microscope by camera. By adding and subtracting fluids you get different set-ups, and see the microscopic fluid changing. The ink is being added and moved by a machine drive. Due to projection on a big screen the microscope image blows up. It seems like the screen is a touchscreen, but it is a projection. On the end of the clip we see a kinect figure moving and dancing, whilst on the background there are visual effects. The visual effect are being made by Justin Blyth with a video program, making use of the microscopic scenes and images. The kinect is recorded by Alexander Porter, with RGBDtoolkit. There are dancers mimicking the movement of the visual effects.

 

EFFECT:

 

Glass of the microscope creates the effect of spacy tripping images with science. It gets a futuristic feeling because we are not used to these images and sculptures. By filming the microscopic fluids from that close by we get to see something we normally wouldn’t, it is unrecognizable and therefore bizarre. It combines scientific principles with bizarre unknown images, making it something otherworldly. it becomes rather intimate when you see something through a microscope.