|
CTIA 2004 Fashion in Motion |
|
|
CTIA Wireless Fashion Show
March 2004, Atlanta World Convention Center
The Topological Media Lab's Softwear Fashion design group presents garments that respond to movement and gesture. Our garments metaphorically present the evolution of wireless technology, past, present and future. TML's softwear garments use a broad spectrum of body-based imaging and sensing technologies, from fiber optics to TinyOS wireless sensor platforms.
The Past: Wire Girl, by Gabriele Semeco
In the past people were chained to their communication technologies. The network was the machine, but people had to sit where the machines sat. Wire Girl represents our bodies chained to our wired technology.
The Present: Medusa Walking, by Seungyon Lee
Now people are as mobile as their cell phones, and our bodies are festooned with an ever more complex assortment of devices. Armed with ever richer mobile media devices we can become as powerful as the legendary Medusa who froze men in their tracks.
The Future: Field Girls, by Jill Fantauzza
But there's a world beyond ubiquitous devices. We imagine a future where fabric itself comes alive with computed patterns that flow according to our gesture and movement. Our softwear garments will allow us to express ourselves wearing sound and moving image like a second skin, a tissue that joins our bodies together in new, playful ways.
Softwear Designers:
Jill Fantauzza, Gabriele Semeco, Seungyon Lee, Justine Lee
Media Artists:
Matthew Warne, Harry Smoak
Wireless Sensor Engineering:
Kevin Stamper, Giovanni Iachello, Steven Dow
Support: Thanks to Intel Research Berkeley, and Intel Wireless Marketing.
|
|
|
Ubicomp 2003 |
|
|
|
Jill Fantauzza, Justine Lee, Seongyon Lee, Gabriela Semeco, Yvonne Caravia, Joe Martin
Character-laden
costumes augmenting the social probing of the dynamics of engagement
and disengagement. The the actor plus sensate/active garment together constitute the social probe.
|
|
|
TinyOS Wireless Gestural Sensor Instruments |
|
|
Giovanni Iachello, Steven Dow, Yoichiro Serita
Thanks to A. Dey and E. Paulos at Intel Research and UC Berkeley,
we adapted the MOTEs to serve as a wireless gestural sensor platform for our gesture
tracking experiments. These wrist-scale computers sense light, acceleration,
magnetic fields, and a variety of physical features like bending or pressure.
|
|
|
Morph |
|
|
Yvonne Caravia, SXW
A costume that fuses physical sounds from elements embedded in the
cloth with digitally processed sounds parameterized by gesture.
|
|
|
TCostume |
|
|
Kulavee Tejavanija, Sungmee Park, Elizabeth Adams
TCostume is a garment that connects players and TGarden environment
together. The fabric reflects body movement and intimately incorporates
the player into the choreography of the media. This version of TCostume
incorporates the Wearable Motherboard
to transfer data from ADXL202 accelerometers though a programmable IC
to a Compaq iPAC pocket PC running LINUX which broadcasts over wireless
Ethernet. The design of TCostume reflects to body gestures and also
makes the garment itself become a screen for projection.
|
|
|
