Workshop Outcomes
Dance
and Wearable Computing: Cultures, Fashions and Design
Facilitated by: MichèleDanjoux (Nottingham)
with Yvonne Watson (Nottingham), Thecla Schiphorst (Vancouver), Erin
Manning (SenseLab, Montreal).
This workshop dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches
and knowledge and to the importance of first person methodologies
and user experience.
We examined practices of the body and bodily connectivity,
reflecting on both inter-body and intra-body exchange. The use of
garment is significant, as both wearable interface (Danjoux & Watson)
and as integral step in a progression system - mapping our physical
state of being (Schiphorst).
We observed the interaction of bodies and movement
responses and acknowledge the incipient, invisible but palpable link
between action bodies; the 'interval' - the not yet there in terms
of movement (Manning) and more specifically in terms of garment (Danjoux,
'Emergent Dress').
Together, we explored ways of harnessing technology
as a personal, sensory, expressive and highly responsive tool to a
more heightened emotional and physically aware state.
(Michèle Danjoux)
(Helenna Ren performing in "tedr" (telematic
performance linking Nottingham/Arizona/Sydney) wearing Michele Danjoux
design prototype)
For a critical essay on the theme of "wearables", see Thecla
Schiphorst's essay, included in the special issue of International
Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (2:2, 2006) dedicated
to Digital Cultures Lab.
Thecla Schiphorst
"Breath,
Skin and Clothing: Using Wearable Technologies as an Interface into
Ourselves"
For critical notes on the design concepts for the "telematic
dress" performed at the Lab (linking with Arizona and Sydney),
see the
pages of the DAP
Lab.
summary description of the "emergent dress"
Links to ongoing research and to workshop participants'
presentations at the DC / Radiator conference
textiles
futures research group