Issey MiyakeGarment pleating and heat setExploring the space between body and fabric-

the wearer gives the garment life and movement

Combining and balancing influences and technologies

www.isseymiyake.com

Gabi SchilligPerformance and conceptual art to create a dialogue between architecture

and fashion designThe architect as an initiator of space Role of author and spectator

www. gabischillig.de

Maggie OrthEmbroidered Musical Instruments These instruments were designed to be played as part of Tod Machover's

Toy Symphony, (MIT Media Lab). Designed to allow a player to control music software played on a PC by

squeezing and touching, each instrument contains eight unique embroidered sensors, which use a capacitive sensing method to measure pressure or how hard the user touches the sensor.

Each instrument is designed to be played with different types of digitally generated music. Pattern, texture and shape are varied.

Media: Machine embroidered conductive yarns and rayon on various fabrics, and sensing electronics. For use with PC and music software. Eight embroidered sensors per instrument. Various sizes, 6"-14".

Alyce Santoro Sonic fabrics – Weave of Cassette tape and cotton/polyester yarnDialogue between art, science and fashionInspired from ‘tell-tails’ which are found on sailboats and the Buddhist prayer flags

www. sonicfabric.comwww.alycesantoro.com

Teste Touch

-interactive installation based on the natural interaction between the male reproductive organs and their environment.

-the hanging ‘scrotum’ responds to temperature by ascending or descending, caused by the body heat of the user.

- dc motor, qprox sensor, copper mesh, skin-like fabric and chicken wire

Wakuraba

-installation where the stones move with a time lag as if they were following the steps you took.

-stones memorize your footsteps, and move continuously until the next person steps on it.

- ‘wakuraba’ = an unexpected encounter between the first person and the next, the past and the present.

TEXTile by Jean Shin is an interactive art piece made of nearly 23,000 computer keycaps, fabric, a projector, and custom software. Viewers can type messages that become a part of the project itself.

In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork. As a result, the sculpture documents its own making.

Viewers can also type their own messages on the active keys amid the first three rows of emails. These new messages are then projected onto the opposite end of the fabric, thereby continuing the virtual dialogue.”

References

www.isseymiyake.comwww.gabischillig.dehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZfW5F6mOAhttp://www.alycesantoro.com/work18.htmlhttp://www.sonicfabric.com/fabric.htmlhttp://www.some-assembly-required.net/blog/2009/01/alyce-santoro.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGC_F4bmdjchttp://www.youtube.com/alyceobvious#p/a/F487A1EA6AEC31C8/1/HbNR7bT0yyE Books:Mediating Space – Soft Geometries, Textile Structures, Body Architecture” by Gabi Schillig