September 2009
41 posts
soft switches →
Convergeo →
Convergeo is a company is based in Concord, Massachusetts, and Lausanne, Switzerland. They specialize in the design and implementation of “convergent architectures,” smart environments and spatial elements that combine physical and digital technologies. They also develop physical and digital building modules (hardware and software) for smart environments, including digital walls, interactive...
Banners of Persuasion →
I can across this project by googling Kara Walker. This article came up http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2008/12/tapestries but I think the project website has a better description of the work than the article for W magazine. Check out all of the artists’ work, there is a lot of variety in weaving style and effect.
led calculators →
multiple led calculator
single led calculator
it may say to use one resistor per led. you can also add up the numbers and use one led.
Musical Textile →
interactive weave created by Maurin Donneaud and Vincent Roudaut.
-anne
Interactive Performance Wear →
this isnt a digital weave, but its pretty cool.
Josh Faught →
Selection of hand woven jacquard works by Oregon based artist Josh Faught.
Emily
Junichi Arai →
A selection of works designed by the prolific japanese textile designer Junichi Arai. Arai is credited with introducing the design of jacquard fabrics with digital technologies on a commercial scale, in addition to his revolutionary work with new materials. The company he began, “nuno”, aptly named “cloth” in japanese, still leads the fashion world in terms of design and...
Catherine Ellis →
An artist and weaver, Catherine Ellis developed a method for integrating the stitching methods she learned from Yoshiko Wada’s Shibori courses into overshot weaves. In addition to it’s dyeing applications, contemporary materials allow for permanent pleating, burnout applications, in addition to interesting applications with felting processes. She’s used the technique on Jacquard...
Janice Lessman-Moss →
The works of the head of the Weaving Program at Kent State in Ohio. She utilizes both industrial and tc-1 jacquards, as well as mechanized dobbys, and applies classic techniques like painted warp to the tc-1.
Dan
Suika Laboratorio →
So, there’s this girl in Finland named Kaisu and she’s a design student. She works on a TC-1. This is her blog about her art; between the links “March” and “May,” you get a sense of her weavings and her aesthetic. The link for May is above. Here is March: http://suikalaboratorio.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
Anne-Marie
ismini samanidou →
Work by isminis amanidou, an artist and designer out of England.
TaraH.
Smart Second Skin Knows When You Smell Bad →
Yes thats right deodorant will now be a thing of the past with this baby. Come on down and buy two today
Josiah
Anke Loh's Dressing Light Project →
Link to SAIC Fashion Instructor Anke Loh’s collection called Dressing Light. Anke and I wove one of the pieces in the collection on the TC-1 loom…
Ok, so its not a woven LED project - its really fiber optic - but it lights up…..
Christy
Studio SubTela at Hexagram Institute
http://subtela.hexagram.ca/Pages/Lucere.html
This is Jacquard weaving based on Mike Holingshead’s photograph, in the exhibition About Jacquard at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles and in North Carolina for the Inspired Design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles touring exhibition.
jongock
Woven Light by Kathy Schicker →
Her light reactive textiles using new and smart yarns that emit, reflect or react to light, including reflective, phosflurescent and photochromic yarns. These were woven using both traditional techniques and advanced technology – often hand woven on digital Jacquard looms.
David Cantu
SO HIP
http://store.americanapparel.net/rsa647grw.html
i dont know if you guys are big AA fans, but they are still selling their thermochromatic T’s. The only problem is, if your armpits get hot, it shows weather you sweat a lot or not.
abby
DIGITS
So this artist doesnt really have much to do with wearable technology, but due to the title of the exhibition, and the pattern of this one piece, it reminded me of the 1’s and 0’s for jaquard, and the digital files we produce.
http://www.kaisersmith.com/Image2008/03b.htm
abby
KRAKOW WEAVING →
The Krakow weaving is an electronic, color-changing Jacquard weaving with conductive yarns, thermochromic inks, and a circuit board.
This is another link for a video of this work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIcWjLamkeo
Jung
LED Lighted Vest Tagboard →
This is a ready-to-wear or purchase LED vest.
cell phone tapping video →
coded cloth pdf →
fashion with lazors and more... →
Hussein Chalayan (interactive fashions - haute couture)
Hussein’s collaborator - tech guy: Moritz Waldermeyer
Interactive t-shirts - thinkgeek
Phillips Skin dresses series
Ravewear
last but not least, mcrorie - 80’s wearable/one man band (turn your speakers down)
~margarita
Knit Virus →
“Knit Virus” is a project by Caitlin Berrigan for the “making anything” Class at MIT. The Knit Virus is a vibrational healing garment. It is knitted into hepatitis C’s geodesic structure of the viral capsid proteins and lipid envelope.
Body Organ Frequencies:
http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.07/people/caitlin/knitvirus/knitvirus_4.html
Proposal:
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Soft Circuit Workshop at NYU! →
Short descriptions of different projects that students presented at the end of a soft circuit workshop directed by Kat Hartman.
Anne-Marie
"Clasped weft weaving with conductive thread and...
Here are examples of LEDs on the weaving and knitting.
-Lynne Bruning’s studio weaving project using conductive thread (weft) and LilyPad Arduino.
http://www.weavezine.com/content/clasped-weft-weaving-conductive-thread-and-leds
-Lynne Bruning’s web site:
http://lynnebruning.com/#/29
-rhyme and reason:light(LED) scarf
http://www.rhymeandreasoncreative.com/electronic_fashion/
Fab Lab - technical outreach →
Fab Lab began as an outreach project for MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) directed by Neil Gershenfeld. Think spreading high- tech knowledge and Technical empowerment around the world by using peer to peer learning, small-scale high tech machines. The Fab Lab has locations around the world.
Physical presentation of online voyeurism, en... →
The concept is simultaneously charming and loaded. To top it off, the execution appears top notch and novel. MIT seems to be paving the way in terms of commercially applicable technologies in this field.
Dan
exhale: (breath between bodies) →
The decision to utilize conventional fabrics that employ conductive materials adapted to industry standards in terms of tactile comfort seems like a much more direct route towards introducing technologies into materials at a commercial level. Like the reading noted about MIT’s BORGLab, the primary issue in the execution of these peices, especially considering their desired ephemeral...
RE:FORM projects: interactive pillows →
Soft pillows woven with electroluminescent wire communicate remotely through an internet-based communication platform. One of a series of research projects from the Interactive Institute in Sweden, incorporating textiles and information technology as design materials.
Body Localized Network for Health Monitoring. →
This Article is a thesis from an MIT Grad. it discusses the ability to create a network of health specific sensors around the body using a conductive fabric garment. No need to read the whole thing. Just the basic introduction from page 10-15
Josiah
Emotional Clothing
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/09/philips-design.php
tried to post a picture, couldnt figure it out. sorry.
Florian Kräutli's human antenna →
The lush, white carpet is interwoven with conductive thread and transforms anyone who stands and walks across the carpet into a human antenna.
Joanna Berzowska's "Feathery Dresses" →
In “Feathery Dresses” participants wearing these garments can affect changes in others’ garments through physical contact. The history of this contact is made visible on the surface of the cloth through patterns of light emitting diodes.
Alexander Reeder's Interactive garments →
Works that draw my attention are
-Dream Jammies, 2008 ( a pajama that captures the sleeping data)
-Butterfly Dress, 2008 ( a dress that reacts to the wearer’s heartbeat)
I think his works are a good example of fashionable technology and wearable art.
Maggie Orth's Electronic Textiles →
pieces i like to look at/think about:
>pile block 2008
>musical jacket 1998 (look at the image of the sketch/design for the piece)
>the firefly dress and necklace from 1998 reminds me of what we are doing with LEDs
i think her pieces are interesting and worth looking at. some of it reminds me a lot of design.
Home Craft Gets Wired (from today's New York... →
Test 1 2 An article about Structural fabrics
http://www-ec.njit.edu/civil/fabric/discussion.html
syllabus + course website link →