SMART RITUALS
A/D/A Festival Hamburg, on Friday, August 26th – Saturday, August 27th.
Smart Ritual is a project created by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson’s (KOBAKANT). I found this browsing on their HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT site.
In response to smart cities, Smart Ritual, KOBAKANT created a workshop that invited other artist to create costumes that will collect data. These costumes will be integrated with sensors smart textiles, and Internet of Things technologies that will collect data and send them over the web by performing ceremonial gestures.
There were a total of ten participants who were grouped together to create a series of different, and exciting costumes that collected different types of data.
Here are some examples of the costumes that were produced:
By Sina Greinert, Katrin Rieber and Katrin Rieber, a Hairy Monster that detected how noisy a space was.
The Curious Twins, created by Lilli Berger, Marie Josephine Bouquet and Mareike Brunswick, that counts all the nice people in the neighborhood.
Lastly, the Flower Fairy, which allows the user to detect the luminosity of a particular spot. The Flower Fairy was created by Barbro Scholz.
Their process for creating these costumes was to first decide what types of data they wanted to collect. Then each team had to act out and perform the gestures they wanted to decide how to incorporate the sensors. After that, they had to sketch out their plans- where does the sensor go? where to place the LEDs strips? how are the sensors integrated into the costume? Once that’s done, they go into the prototyping phase. Each team had to connect all the parts that they wanted, then they had to test the gestures to make sure it works with the sensor, then testing to see if the costumes actually work. The last step in the making process is to decorate their costumes.
Making stage:
Testing their gestures:
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