Beauty poses out of context

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home from Dominic Wilcox on Vimeo.

Emoki

klezinski

http://www.klezinski.com/

The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines

http://booktwo.org/notebook/waving-at-machines/

“tensed up” - a piece of material demonstrates our field of activity

This textile describes a wearable sensor to 'feel', detect and indicate electricity. I want to combine material behaviour with human perception to enable communication and to raise specific questions regarding increasing fields of electronic technology and our electrified behaviour. A woven textile uses electrical energy from its surroundings via influence - by human activity as well as electric fields nearby - and passes it in a comprehensible way to the user. For testing it, the textile is attached at the shoulder of the participant and has exposed yarns, which is to represent hair. If he or she is acting fast, the textile hair stands higher and higher - it charges up until it wants to discharge in its surroundings.

If the material received a huge quantity of electric energy, it gets more inflexible. After that it wants to give up its electricity and consequently can interrupt technical devices or give the wearer small electric shocks, after he charged it. This project demonstrates a possibility to enhance and sensitise materials to explore changing in perception. Figuratively the textile caricatures the fear of electric fields. The material probe describes electric current as something natural, which has different manifestations. This fabric can ask questions about cultural trends that will emerge from our constantly growing need for energy.

the sounds in the video were produced by my electric detection device, which was mounted beside the video camera.

My Ears Are Burning

My Ears Are Burning makes a user aware of attention being paid to her online presence. Heating elements placed on the user's ears are activated when, for example, her web page is accessed or she is tagged in a photograph on Facebook.

Luke Jeraram - Talking Ring

Working with a jeweller and the vinyl record manufacturer Dubstudios I created this engagement ring for my partner Shelina. The ring has a 20 second recorded message (my proposal) etched onto its surface and can be played back with a miniature record player. 100 lbf/in² of pressure was required to cut the silver ring, using a vibrating diamond stylus. The ring is also a homage to Thomas Edison who made the first sound recording machine - the phonograph in 1877.

Using the ring, Luke Jerram proposed to Shelina in a hot air balloon over Bristol in 2005. We've since got married and had 2 children Maya and Nico. The story made The Times newspaper and the BBC news as well as various feminist websites across the world.

Threadless

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I AM KING

Bristol, UK, based artist Tom Barter has recently launched a range of bespoke t-shirts. Each unique T is hand painted with some crazy illustrations. Watch this space.

Pollution-sensitive clothing

Stephanie Sandstrom’s EPA dress, uses clothing as an interface to express air quality. Embedded with sensors that read the atmosphere, when poor air quality is detected, the fabric itself crumples up. Currently being exhibited at San Francisco’s 2nd Skin exhibition, which is all about exciting, experimental future textiles.

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Diesel fashion show with holographics

More holographic madness. Diesel used liquid air as the medium to create holographics in. More pictures of the show and a video, click here. The tech is not a Musion set up but by a company called Vizoo.