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Aesthetics, experimentation, research

"Research has radically altered our culture and will continue to do so. Art must be an essential part of this process". Stephen Wilson

How Can the Arts be Part of a Technological Era?
"There are several competing visions of how artists can most fruitfully work with emerging technologies:
treat them as new media, deconstruct their cultural implications, or participate in the processes of invention and extension."
Stephen Wilson - Professor, Conceptual/Information Arts, Art Department, San Francisco State University

'the electronics will be either invisible or outright parts of the aesthetic design'
the Wearable Computing Lab , Zurich

inspired by a mix
..... of technology and aesthetics

Since 1983 Benoît Maubrey and his Berlin-based AUDIO GRUPPE have been building electro-acoustic clothing and suits.
Electronic looping devices, light sensors, radio wave receivers are also included on the plexiglas surfaces of the tutus: the Audio Ballerinas were able to create an entire spectrum of sounds via their clothing. Elise Co's interest is in fashion, and in the ways that technology and computation can expand the notions of fashion, relationships to the body, expression, and communication.This involves creating new garment paradigms, not of "wearable computing" cyborgs, but of carefully designed pieces that are responsive, reconfigurable, and beautiful. Smart Fabric - detailed report on conductive textiles. This paper describes some of the techniques used to build circuits from commercially available fabrics, yarns, fasteners, and components. The Musical Jacket and other smart textiles Redhill, August 3, 1999
Philips Research and Philips Design have unveiled a unique mix of electronic and textile
technology to create an entirely new clothing concept:
‘Wearable Electronics’. Telecommunications carrier France Telecom, through its research development unit, unveiled a "smart" scarf/jacket for the mobile worker of tomorrow. The clothing item, called the 'echarpe communicante' was introduced in Workspheres, a design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art examining the changing nature of the workplace.

SMART FABRIC / electronic textiles:
Computerised clothing will benefit textile manufacturers - Cliff Randell. Technical Textiles International, September 2001.
Soft switch
Peratech Limited
EuraLab
ifmachines

EMBROIDERY (decorative) links:
Computer Textile Design Group links
Techno Textiles - revolutionary fabrics for fashion and design' by Sarah Braddock and Marie O'Mahony
Fabric Page for Costumers

OTHER
Art as Research paper: Stephen Wilson
Towards a Culture of Ubiquity paper: Patrick Lichty
"In my body of research vis-à-vis the shift in praxis from the screen to the palm to the body to the space, there are
issues of representation that are revealed through the way that aesthetic content is embodied through the interface.
Ubiquity And Vested Interests:
"We like to call these bearables, rather than wearables"


Since 1983 Benoît Maubrey and his Berlin-based AUDIO GRUPPE have been building electro-acoustic clothing and suits. Electronic looping devices, light sensors, radio wave receivers are also included on the plexiglas surfaces of the tutus: the Audio Ballerinas were able to create an entire spectrum of sounds via their clothing.	Elise Co's interest is in fashion, and in the ways that technology and computation can expand the notions of fashion, relationships to the body, expression, and communication.This involves creating new garment paradigms, not of "wearable computing" cyborgs, but of carefully designed pieces that are responsive, reconfigurable, and beautiful.	Smart Fabric - detailed report on conductive textiles. This paper describes some of the techniques used to build circuits from commercially available fabrics, yarns, fasteners, and components. The Musical Jacket and other smart textiles	Redhill, August 3, 1999 Philips Research and Philips Design have unveiled a unique mix of electronic and textile technology to create an entirely new clothing concept: ‘Wearable Electronics’.	Telecommunications carrier France Telecom, through its research development unit, unveiled a "smart" scarf/jacket for the mobile worker of tomorrow. The clothing item, called the 'echarpe communicante' was introduced in Workspheres, a design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art examining the changing nature of the workplace.