I was really impressed wit the possibility of projecting something in any clothing piece, after a research, i also found this two references that are really stunning and in my point of view a new innovation into the e-textile world. For me the most amazing is the different application you can put into this technology specially in interaction design that affects people behavior in their day to day basis.

EINK DRESS

Text and video by Eink at DNP booth in Retail Tech 2017.

Electronic Dress, color-changing ink technology in E Ink Prism, each tile can not only change its own hue, but also be programmed to create different patterns in conjunction with other modules.

MEMBRANE

Text and video by bymelt.com

Membrane – a tactile screen is a human-size interactive touchscreen made of fabric. It’s a lifelike technology. You can touch it and feel it reacting. The organic structure and feel of the fabric provides immersive and tactile experience. The door-like size lets us have an interactive dialogue with the viewer. The fabric reacts to your touch. Every time it generates distinctive animations. It feels the pressure of your touch. Everything impacts both visuals and sound. Redefining the touch interaction mechanics it resembles more of a living organism than a piece of hidden technology.

Lilytronica – Afroditi Psarra – 2013

The most fascinating aspect of this project for me is the interface that was created for this project. As textiles alone, these controllers are visually compelling to me. It’s interesting because it could look like anything, it might as well have been just a jumble of sensors on the fabric and it would still serve the same functionality, but Afroditi decided to make things as though they are recognizable instruments such as the piano. I’m less interested in the sound aspect of the project but I really can appreciate that these controllers can be folded up neatly and take out without being too cumbersome.

-Dylan

The project in the week 1 slideshow that I found most interesting was mycoTEX because it was about creating garments out of the living material mycelium. I think Aniela’s idea to rethink the future of materials is important in finding materials that are sustainable. I found this project by Amy Congdon called “BIOLOGICAL ATELIER :  AW 2014 ‘HAUTE BACON’ COLLECTION”. Although this project isn’t made using the same material mycelium as in Aniela’s project, this project utilizes and envisions the future where living materials and biotechnological processes can be combined to create fashion. Amy’s piece uses the process of decellularization on bacon. This process removes all of the cells within the outer structure leaving the scaffold of the original material. With this she incorporates bone powder and pearls into the scaffold as well as traditional techniques such as dyeing, tanning, and weaving to create this jewelry. Similar to that of Aniela’s project in that Amy is trying to rethink and envision what the future of materials will be like. 

The project Input/Output paper excited me most. The artist of this project is Jie Qi. In this project, there is a pair of origami papers. When the red paper is being folded, the other will fold automatically, following the red one. This project intrigues me. It doesn’t look so fancy and complicated, but it is very clever and great potential. The yellow one seems robotic. It can be controlled in the distance and imitate the user. Sometimes in the speculative science films, there are props of this kind of function.  According to Jie Qi’s description, “the microcontroller and circuitry is on the body of the red paper and the white paper is actuated by shape memory alloy.” Shape memory alloy enables the paper to fold by remote control. The whole process is very clever and inspiring.

Trapped In Suburbia, a Bureau for Visual Communication from The Hague and David Van Gemeren, a graphic designer created this incredible series of Sound Posters.

The first sound poster is created by conductive ink and a synthesizer, when audience touches the poster, the circuit will be closed and it will generate sound. I am intrigued by how conductive ink is used here to create beautiful graphics that symbolizes the music that it will create. I think the experiences that allow audiences to not only see but to interact with posters to produce different responses brings a new dimension of play into the graphic world.

Sound poster 3.0 was also very surprising to me, they used ink made out of gun powder to communicate human’s desire to touch the button that says “can’t touch this”. The touch will start up a fire which makes its way around the poster to end at the button and explodes. I think it’s such a unique way to communicate the message.

Sound poster 1.0

Sound poster 2.0

Sound poster 3.0