Tag archive for ‘fashion’
Compli_mum
Project Description::
The costume that I designed as a second body is named “Compli-mum” which means “Complete woman”. It looks like armor for women or special clothing for self-protection, but it is also trendy and sexy looking. The costume changes its own shape by separating or gathering parts of its construction through the use of microcontroller [...]
Take that, Fashion Week!
Conflux features several “tech-fashion” projects, mixing high-fashion design with breakthrough technology. These include Jenny Chowdhury’s Wi-Fi jacket – a floral jacket with integrated illuminated strips which light up in accordance to local wi-fi strength; Kristen O’Friel’s CO2RSET – a corset which tightens and loosens as CO2 levels fluctuate; Teta Haniya’s Secrets - a mobile store of absurd electronic lingerie hacked electronically Syrian-style to add a playful edge to otherwise ‘boring’ western styles; and JooYoun’s Self-Sustainable Chair – a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step; creating a chair upon the bubble’s full inflation. More in the art-meets-fashion cateogory: Art.hro.poda: Cognigestation; Back-to-Back Massager (Free Mobile Massage); Every Step; Helmet Piece; Swinging Underground; Urban Fiber Flotsam; and Vertical Bed.
Back-to-Back Massager (Free Mobile Massage)
This project will take place near Conflux headquarters throughout the weekend.
Project Description::
The Back-to-Back Massager is a battery powered mobile massaging vest. Instead of massaging the wearer, the electric massagers are pointed outward in order to massage others. The wearer is able to give a massage to others by pressing her back against theirs. [...]
Urban Fiber Flotsam
Self-guided project: Saturday, September 13, from 1PM to 4PM
The artist will be drifting and working with urban flotsam fiber in the vicinity of the New Museum (235 Bowery) and at various fiber outposts on the Lower East Side.
Project Description:
Please visit the Urban Fiber Flotsam blog/journal for frequent updates.
Urban Fiber Flotsam will take place over the [...]
Every Step
This self-guided project will appear around Conflux HQ on September 12, 13, and 14, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Project Description::
Every Step allows a participant to create a short experimental animation while they walk. Each participant is given an armband with a mounted camera and pedometer. The pedometer acts as a trigger for the camera [...]
Art.hro.poda: Cognigestation
This self-guided project will make appearances near Conflux HQ throughout the weekend.
Project Description::
Art.hro.poda: Cognigestation is a series of mobile installations in which Art.hro.poda builds and inhabits a variety of gestation shells in a different location each day of the exhibition. She uses only the materials of her external body suit to build her gestation shells. [...]
Helmet Piece
This scheduled event will appear in and around Conflux HQ on Thursday, September 11, from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
and on Friday, September 12, from 6pm to 7pm on East 10th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
Project Description::
Helmet Piece is an interactive embodied installation. The work is made up of a group of performers outfitted [...]
Self-Sustainable Chair
This scheduled off-site event will take place at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street, on Saturday, September 13th, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Project Description::
Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress [...]
Vertical Bed
This self-guided project will take place in the area around Conflux HQ at different times for the duration of the festival.
The artist will be sleeping standing up for 40 minute intervals on the hour at 2,6, and 10, a.m. and p.m, anchoring above the subway vents around the Center for Architecture. All of his sleep [...]
CO2RSET
Project Description::
CO2RSET is couture that monitors air quality and tightens or loosens on the body in response to the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. The corset provides a form capable of asserting influence over the wearer’s breath to provide a visceral reminder and bring awareness to the quality of air being breathed on an [...]
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