We need your vote for SXSW Wearable Tech Panel: Organized by Odette Valentin, a graduate student at Brunel University. The SXSW Wearable Tech Panel is centered around the topic of “open design” and its relationship to wearable technology development. Panelists include: Otto von Busch – author of ‘FASHION-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design’. Mary Huang [...]...
This series of blog posts are an analysis of the works recently presented at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media Text_Lab “Clothing without Cloth” event I curated which included: Emily Crane (UK), Carole Collet (UK), Christien Meindertsma (NL), Grado Zero Espace (IT), Pauline van Dongen (NL) and Freedom of Creation (NL). When I fist [...]...
This series of blog posts are an analysis of the works recently presented at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media Text_Lab “Clothing without Cloth” event I curated which included: Emily Crane (UK), Carole Collet (UK), Christien Meindertsma (NL), Grado Zero Espace (IT), Pauline van Dongen (NL) and Freedom of Creation (NL). Textile Futures: Central [...]...
This series of blog posts are an analysis of the works recently presented at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media Text_Lab “Clothing without Cloth” event I curated which included: Emily Crane (UK), Carole Collet (UK), Christien Meindertsma (NL), Grado Zero Espace (IT), Pauline van Dongen (NL) and Freedom of Creation (NL). Sustainable Food: Emily [...]...
What are the core differences between illuminated vs. shape-changing garments? Perhaps it is best to begin with a few examples: Illuminated displays integrated into wearables have had the most success in mainstream fashion from Cute Circuits’ “Twirkle” series of T-Shirts and dresses, to the “Galaxy Dress” with 24000 full color LEDs – the largest wearable [...]...
On smart textiles, wearable technologies and performativity...
3lectromode is looking for designers/programmers interested in doing an internship to co-develop future D-I-Y projects. In particular, we are looking for fashion designers skilled in pattern making with an interest in textile design and programmers interested in further developing the Arduino platform for wearables. Respond before May 1 2011 w/ cv & portfolio.
Founded and directed by designer-artist Valérie Lamontagne, 3lectromode hold...
There are good arguments as to why wearables are closely aligned with the growing movement of open design practices. To being with, Johanna Blakley has argued that fashion is predicated on “free culture”, i.e. that the history of fashion points to borrowing, remixing, and re-inventing known patterns and methods. Other designers, such as Otto von [...]...
Modernity created a number of key factors germane to the production of “fashion” culture today: a mobile urban society where individuals at leisure could observe one another, a fluid economy that supported upward economic and social mobility and the technological means for things to be reproduced on a large material and geographical scale (i.e. publishing, [...]...
When tracing the history of wearables one must excavate when technology begins to be adorned on the body. The first example, the wind up clock, makes its way from being worn on a chain around the neck (for women) or on a pocket chain (for men) to the first wristwatch introduced in Geneva, Switzerland, by [...]...
It’s nice to think how the two hobbyist worlds of sewing and electronics come together in the practice of wearables, where “Pretty in Pink” meets the “Survival Research Lab“. So, what do these distinct worlds—of physical computing geeks vs. wanna-be prom queens—have in common? 1. They are “fans” of all the gear that comes with [...]...
The Futurists are an interesting bunch. They fetishized technology, war, pranks in general and violence. Hum…what is there not to like? Of interest is their explorations in fashion, particularly Giacomo Balla’s modular suit. Ages ahead of Andrew Bolton’s Supermodern Wardrobe (2002) in which the author argues that modern life is increasingly predicated on a need [...]...
We are entering an era of production where the atelier / studio and the factory / laboratory are increasingly blurred as the proliferation of prosumer (professional + consumer) machines enter the public sphere. What this means for those working in the field of digital media and physical computing practices is that we have more toys [...]...
Lucy McRae – and the collaboration duo LucyandBart – are so cool. How is it that something that looks so simple as modifying the body with playful mediums such as paper, grass, soap bubbles, safety pins, toothpicks etc. manages to capture the imagination so? The low tech element of the transformations (the fact that it [...]...
For those of you looking for an online ordering place to create custom fabrics, Spoonflower is a USA based organization that does so. I saw the results, and the prints are beautiful. I’m eager to try it and curious if it is the same Mimaki TX2-1600 I have access to at Hexagram / Concordia University. [...]...
Japan does pattern books in such an exquisite fashion! Check out these delightful Stylish Dress Books on sale via Pompadour24 on Etsy. You can also get more info on the books at makesomething....
The 3lectromode Blog is now officially launched! It will showcase various obsessions around wearables, fashion, D-I-Y culture, electronics, performative and social wearables as well as updates and upcoming events, and a view into works in process from the 3lectromode studio. The research is linked to my in-progress PhD on “Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in [...]...
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