Interactive concept garments and body extensions

Danielle Wilde, Visiting Research Fellow in Technical Textiles and Wearable Technologies at Nottingham University, will present her current research outcomes: a range of interactive concept garments and body extensions that encourage people to explore and move in playful ways. The different interfaces allow the wearer to hear the shape or dynamic of their movements, to dance sound, to draw pictures by moving their hips, to interact with each other with rays of light extending out from their bodies, to navigate through “invisible” vibro-tactile displays, as well as to “try on” another’s deformity or physical limitation, or to change the shape of a garment dynamically through movement. Through this work Danielle hopes to understand how to incite people to move and extend themselves physically, while celebrating the idiosyncratic nature of relationships to the body.

Danielle is an artist, performance maker and design researcher based at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design (Melbourne, Australia) and the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering (Belmont), where she undertakes practice-based doctoral research, investigating how interactive technology in, on and around the body might be used to poeticise experience. Her current research builds upon more than 12 years experience developing body-centric technology for art, performance and design research contexts. Situating this research in the dual context of Fine Art (at Monash) and government funded scientific research (at CSIRO) brings a richness and rigour to the work that would not be possible otherwise.

http://daniellewilde.com

bookings are essential (and lunch will be provided). to attend please email : adb.research@ntu.ac.uk