Dance
and Wearable Computing
the
emergent dress
tedr
(Helenna Ren performing in "tedr" (telematic
performance linking Nottingham/Arizona/Sydney) wearing Michele Danjoux
design prototype)
tedr
First exhibited at Wearable Futures, Newport, Wales (September 05)
The "emergent dress" project, developed at the DAP Lab,
involves transdisciplinary intersections between fashion and live
performance, interactive system architecture, electronic textiles,
wearable technologies, choreography, and anthropology. Centered around
a series of live telematic performances created with remote partners,
this research project explores new ideas for movement technologies
and garment design in an arts and digital research context. The concept
on an "evolving" garment design that is materialized (moved)
in live performance originates from DAP Lab's experimentation with
telematics and distributed media addressing "connective tissues"
through a study of perception/proprioception in the wearer (tactile
sensory processing) and the dancer/designer/viewer relationship. Since
2005 this exploration is conducted as cross-cultural communication
with online performance partners in Europe, the US, Brazil and Japan.
The inter-active space is predicated on transcultural questions: how
does the movement with an evolving design and wearable interactive
sensors travel, how does movement - and capturing of movement - allow
the design to emerge toward a garment statement, and how are bodies-in-relation-to
sensory fabrics affected by the multidimensional kinesthetics of a
media-rich, responsive environment?
December 2005, Johannes Birringer*
(Collaborating artist and lab co-facilitator: Michèle Danjoux,
Fashion, Nottingham Trent University)
*The DAP Lab was operating at NTU during 2004-2005
and then moved to Brunel University, London, where it is housed now.
2006: Design Project: Klüver
Exhiburted at DRHA Dartington College of Arts, September 2006, and
Prague Quadrennial, Design in Motion Festival, Czech Republic, June
2007
2007 Start of new Design Project: Suna no Onna
For a description of the Suna no Onna collection,
go to our lab
London premiere of Suna no Onna
is Saturday, December 8, 19:30, Laban Center
2008 Projects
Proposal
for Dallas Social Fabrics Exhibition 2008
Klüver presented at International ArtExpo - After
Urban . Video Art & Architecture event
After Urban - Video Art & Architecture event at the 4th Edition
of the International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari 2007 in
Florean Museum, Baia Mare, Romania (November 16-17, 2007).
After Urban - Video Art & Architecture event at Monkeytown in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York (December 7-23, 2007).