Philips Design Probe – Bubbelle Dress

The SKIN probe project examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing – the shift from ‘intelligent’ to ‘sensitive’ products and technologies.

As part of SKIN, we have developed a ‘Soft Technology’ outfit to identify the future for high tech materials and Electronic Textile Development in the area’s of skin and emotional sensing.

The dress show emotive technology and how the body and the near environment can use pattern and color change to interact and predict the emotional state.

Far-future design concepts
SKIN: Dresses is a Probe, a far-future design concept. It is not intended as a production prototype nor will it be sold as a Philips product. Like past Probe design concepts that have stimulated discussion around a range of issues, this concept is testing a possible future – not prescribing one.

A marvellously intricate wearable prototype Bubbelle is a dress surrounded by a delicate ‘bubble’ illuminated by patterns that changed dependent on skin contact. 

Bubbelle was one of a series of dynamic garments developed by Philips Design as part of their on-going SKIN exploration research into the area known as emotional sensing. Nancy Tilbury was the Fashion Director of Probes, part of a pioneering interdisciplinary design team at Philips Design.

 

Rhyme & Reason by Mary Huang

 

exploring light as a material for transformative fashions

What if we could make clothes out of immaterial things? With LEDs diffused through layers of fabric and knit, softness and warmth are paralleled in material and effect, imparting the sense that one can touch and hold light.
For more photos and info visitfashion.rhymeandreasoncreative.com.

There have been many garments made using LEDs by now, yet most all work with LEDs in clothing have focused on making “clothes with LEDs”, not “clothes with light”. This distinction is important, as it has totally different priorities. 

Dozens of bright white LEDs are embedded in each garment, using a custom developing wiring system for an invisible finish. 

All pieces use removable battery components. Custom made Lithium Poly battery packs provide up to 10 hours of continuous light. Standard AAA batteries can also be used.

 

Chlorophyll Skin

http://todayinart.com/2010/02/transnatural-an-exhibition-by-lucy-mcrae/

by body architect Lucy mcrae

2 – TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH /3D printing

3D PRINTING

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Technology Research

COLLECTIVE RESEARCH

Karina van Heck

Karina van Heck maakte enkele maanden na haar afstuderen als beeldend kunstenaar een vliegende start met de prijs voor ‘Young artists on the road’ van de Aachener Kunstroute 2004. Ze is gefascineerd door de medische wetenschap. Ze gebruikt medische materialen en apparatuur die ze vervolgens onder de naam Med Technics combineert tot merkwaardige placeboprothesen. Rubber, staal, bloedzakjes, prothesen, infusen en slangetjes zijn haar beeldend materiaal.

 

Halsbekleding die lichaamsgeluiden weergeeft –> WEARABLE BODY SPEAKER

 

Een bijzondere halsbekleding, die door de ingebouwde technologie de mogelijkheid biedt te luisteren naar wat er zich binnen in het lichaam afspeelt, o.a. de hartslag en de geluiden van de ingewanden.
De geluiden worden uitgezonden/overgedragen via de koptelefoon.

 

Wearables die geluid vastleggen van de interne geluiden van een lichaam. lichamelijke functies worden onderzocht en geremixt ze in de vorm van geluid. Er wordt gebruikgemaakt van nieuwe technologieen zoals X-ray en kleine camera’s die de organen observeren.

 

”In deze tijden van stress luisteren we niet genoeg naar ons lichaam. We nemen het voor lief dat ons lichaam werkt, ongeacht waar we het aan blootstellen. Door te luisteren naar de geluiden van ons lichaam, kunnen we ons ervan bewust worden hoe het met ons lichaam gaat en wat het nodig heeft,” zegt ontwerper Karina van Heck over haar intelligente kunstwerk Body Speaker.

 

Het project suggereert een zekere spiritualiteit. De gebruiker dient te luisteren naar de frequency van zijn eigen lichaam. Het is ook een soort meditatie.

 

 

GER Mood Sweater

The GER MOOD SWEATER interprets emotion and displays excitement levels instantly with an illuminated collar. It is a whimsical approach to new forms of communication inspired by the body.

How it works
SENSOREE has crafted a soft sensor design called the The GER: Galvanic Extimacy Responder, as it promotes extimacy – externalized intimacy. The sensors are located on the hands and reads excitement levels and then, translates the data into a palette of affective colors. The design of the bowl shaped, high collar is positioned with LEDs that reflects onto the self for instant biofeedback as well as act as a tele-display or external blush for the other. Located around the larynx, the visual interface replaces speaking, as the wearer’s truths are instantly expressed with color.

 

 

 

 

PART 1 | NEW MEDIA ARTIST | CARRI MUNDEN

CARRI MUNDEN / CASETTE PLAYA

BIO

Carri Munden is an English fashion designer. Born as Carri Munden, she is also credited as Carri Munden and CassettePlaya, her fashion label. She currently works and lives in London. In 2007 director and designer carri munden was nominated for best menswear designer at the british fashion awards alongside christopher bailey and alexander mcqueen. 2008 carri was awarded best fashion designer in rolling stone’s best of rock issue.Cassette playa has collaborated + worked with brands including nike, sega, jim henson, nintendo, stussy, swatch, phenomenon jp, rockers nyc, medicom + mattel.

WORK

            

   

MATERIAL

Cassette playa is an international luxury women’s + menswear brand with a reputation for cult graphics and digital print. Cassette playa has chosen to show digitally for 8 of their 12 seasons at london fashion week using film, animation, sound, augmented reality and interactive digital installations to push the boundaries of fashion presentation.

TECHNOLOGY

“ We use really basic pieces of technology, like glitter brushes that people use to put glitter on their MySpace profiles. People can look at our stuff and think, “It’s done,” but we understand the type of people who use that type of technology and who would appreciate our clothes. We just want to put it on a higher level — making stuff with that technology on a different scale.”

The video, titled PVNK, is a sensory teeth-kicker that attempts to investigate “the tribal aspects of punk and subcultures by exploring scarification and body modification using 3D modelling.” In otherwords, we see an animated human figure evolve, grow a spike-y mohawk, and change colors.

EXPERIENCE

The experience is very futuristic, it’s like living a game but then in the real world.

LINKS

http://cassetteplaya.com

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/cassette-playa/cassette-playa-aw1011-neuromance-augmented-reality-presentation#ooid=l1a2pqMToiYUk7V2R-pHLQc3pNWaWGP9

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/designer-carrie-munden-explore-the-tribal-aspect-of-punk-using-3d-modeling

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/creators/cassette-playa

 

Ricardo O’Nascimento & Anbasja Blanken

Ricardo O’Nascimento & Anbasja Blanken

De ‘Paparazzi Lover’ jurk.
Laat de drager zien aan de fotograven wie de echte ster is. Zodra  er geflitst word met een camera, gaan er allemaal led lampjes branden om zo in het middelpunt te staan.

Video’s

http://vimeo.com/44167255

smart textiles

Despite the allure of flashing lights, one of the most interesting aspects of wearable technology is the innovation going on at the material level. Smart textiles will transform the way we think of clothes, what they do and what they are.
Textiles will change everything. For example, one of the main hurdles for 3D printed clothes is that 3D printers right now are having a hard time creating a material that is a thin and supple as wool — so printing clothing has to wait for appropriate materials to be developed. While wearable electronics are gaining in popularity, tons of research is going on to ensure that wearable electronics are more than just shirts with gadgets stuck to them.
A few of the intriguing areas of research are textiles that plug clothing into the larger Internet of Things, textiles that turn clothing into power sources, and, perhaps most interesting, textiles that use new technologies to mimic the natural world.
Clothing already communicates. It communicates who we are, who we want to be perceived as being, our group affiliations. But down the line there’s a strong possibility that our clothing (or some people’s clothing, at least) will communicate with its surrounding environment. According to Tom Martin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and co-director of the E-Textiles Lab at Virginia Tech,
“The most exciting development is the potential for textiles to sense and respond to their environments and situations,” Martin says. “In particular, integrating sensors and computational devices into fabrics will enable the fabrics to provide a much richer set of capabilities than is currently possible. These electronic textiles (e-textiles) will allow us to build smart garments, as well as home and office furnishings that look and feel like their everyday counterparts while being able to sense our presence, monitor our health, and dynamically adapt to our individual needs.”
One example of this are textile sensors developed by researchers at the University of Arkansas, which monitor wearers’ cardiac signs and communicate them to doctors and hospitals, no matter the location. Sports brands are leading the way in mainstreaming this tech. Stella McCartney’s Performance Sports Bra, designed for Adidas, uses “conductive sensing fibers” to monitor runners’ biorhythms. After the success of Nike+, sports brands have been quick to get into quantified-self products, and are the first to really be promoting smart textiles.
The quantified self is great, but what’s really interesting is products like this bracelet, which control a building’s environmental conditions. Clothing that does this is probably really far down the line, but will be fascinating in the ways it blurs the line between the individual and space, surface and surrounding, etc.

Ying Gao

 

Fashion designer and professor, recipient of the Phyllis-Lambert Design Montréal Grant, Ying Gao lives and works between Geneva and Montreal. She questions our assumptions about clothing by combining urban design, architecture and multimedia. She explores the construction of the garment, taking her inspiration from the transformations of the social and urban environment. Recognized worldwide, her designs are frequently shown in museums and galleries. Design is the medium, situated in the technological rather than in the textile realm. Sensory technologies allow garments to become more playful and interactive. Ying Gao explores both the status of the individual, whose physical contours are transformed by external interferences, and the garment’s function as a fragile protective space. Her work testifies to the profound mutation of the world in which we live and carries with it a radical critical dimension that transcends technological experimentation.