twenty1f: fashion for the 21st century

Call for workshop participation

The Empire’s New Clothes - Art, Fashion and Technology

Wednesday 10th of May - Saturday 13th of May
at Atelier Nord Oslo/Norway
by Sabine Seymour & Erich Berger

Free participation
Application deadline friday 21st of April
Send applications with CV to sense@anart.no

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Clothing was among the first cultural and technological achievements of the
human. Since its first intention as a second skin, communication
technologies and smart materials dramatically changed its use.

Clothing itself became an interface to the digital space which surrounds us.

The workshop will show how textiles and technology appear in artistic
practices and will introduce materials and techniques in use and in research.

In the workshop the participants will work and experiment on an expanded
idea of fashion and technology.

Especially participants who already attended the previous workshops will be
able to apply their ideas and skills on the very fabric of society.

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WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

Participation is free of charge.

Artists, designers and practitioners interested in participating
are asked to apply with a CV to sense@anart.no

Application deadline friday April 21st.

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Workshop directors and producer:

Sabine Seymour (AT/USA) http://moondial.com
Erich Berger(AT/FI) http://randomseed.org

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The empires new clothes is part of the Interface and Society project at
Atelier Nord, http://anart.no/projects/interface-and-society/ .

Upcoming workshops at Atelier Nord:

June : Media art and public space with Susanne Jaschko (DE)
September: Mobile media art with Laura Beloff (FI)

ATELIER NORD
PHONE +47 23060880
FAX +47 23060884
E-MAIL office@anart.no
URL http://anart.no
MAIL Lakkegata 55 D, N-0187 Oslo, Norway

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posted by : regine on 25 Apr 2006

Dear All,

CuteCircuit and Codice Idee per la Cultura would be delighted to show your wearable technology projects in the Future Fashion Event at Viaggio Telecom 2006 Conference in Pisa, Italy.

The FutureFashionEvent is made possible by Telecom Italia-Progetto Italia and is the first smart/interactive fashion event to be held in Italy! We aim to showcase the best of international design in this field and we hope your team will participate.

The FutureFashion Event will be held on May 20th and 21st and the submission deadline is April 30th. Please download the PDF containing all the information about this event and contact us with any questions you might have, we will be glad to hear from you!

Best regards,
Francesca Rosella
for the Future Fashion Event team

download the call for submissions here!

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posted by : francesca-cutecircuit on 25 Apr 2006

Alison Lewis of SWITCH is on her way to the Maker Faire where she will be teaching the workshop,”Lovie Circuits” on both Sat and Sun. Alison will show you how to make two loving circuits for wearing or for plushie dolls.

When the circuits are together they magically connect and both light up with a blinking red heart. When apart you can make it light up to remember the one you love, but they are happier together. This circuit can be put inside two hand made plushie dolls, in t-shirts or in an accessories like a bracelets. Pictured above is the circuit board (inside) to make Lovie Circuits. They can be put into anything and are only 1″ X 2″ (a little smaller actually). The little “X”’s are where the wires attached to a persons shirt, bracelet, plushy doll or what have you, when these two wires are connected to conductive object, thread, or anything it lights up. It has a 555 Timer chip and is perfect for someone’s first time putting a board together with their first IC! Link.

Via MAKE.

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posted by : regine on 21 Apr 2006

Interesting events at the upcoming Make Faire, April 22-23, San Matteo, CA.
Saturday, April 22 6:00 PM (30 minutes)

Fashion designers Diana Eng (recently of Bravo’s “Project Runway”) and Emily Albinski first made headlines when their Inflatable Dress made the cover of ID Magazine last fall. In their first fashion show together, Diana and Emily will launch their new collection under their brand “Blackbox Nation”. The duo strives to push forward technology in the fashion world.

Related site: http://www.blackboxnation.com

Saturday and Sunday 12:00 AM

Location: Fiesta Hall

SparkLab is a body of DIY projects that investigate between culture, technology and craft. It encourages a new methodology for assembling electronic circuitry which merges sewing techniques with electronics. Wires are substituted for conductive thread, snaps for solder joints and connection points, and everyday silk organza is used as the conductive medium.

The DIY projects range from wearables that use light and thermochromatic inks to reveal and conceal imagery to interactive electronic projects for the home that do not even require the use for a soldering iron.

All projects are interactive and serve as vehicles for communication and self-expression.

Syuzi will also be holding a Wearable Light Workshop in this location.

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posted by : regine on 20 Apr 2006

This week, at the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention in Chicago, Ford fashion models will strut down a catwalk in dresses by designers like Oscar de la Renta made of fabric produced from corn kernels.

Called Ingeo, the material is “thin and comfortable” and “doesn’t stretch or rip,” says Melissa Sack of Moral Fervor, which is launching an Ingeo T-shirt line. (Armani is putting an Ingeo knit shirt in its spring-summer 2006 collection.) “But the main reason we’re using it is it’s sustainable.” Unlike nylon and polyester (oil-derived synthetics), Ingeo is made from a renewable crop: animal-feed corn, of which U.S. farms produce about 12 billion bushels annually. There are downsides, however. The fabric is machine-washable but can melt if ironed; it costs a bit more than cotton or polyester. Still, corn-derived materials are versatile. Among other uses, they can be made into beer cups, as they are for Minnesota T-Wolves games. If you’re tempted to nibble, though, get a brat.

Via dexigner.

TAGS: corn, fabric, material, sustainable

posted by : regine on 18 Apr 2006

MoMu is welcoming an exhibition devoted to Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto. The third installment of a series beginning with the Pitti Immagine Foundation in Florence and the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, the Antwerp show is entitled Dream Shop. Halfway the exhibition the visitor enters the Dream Shop: a white, dream-like space where visitors can try on around twenty pieces in neon-drenched changing cubicles.

Thought of in two parts, this event will at once be a retrospective of the designer’s work and also a unique threefold experience of his creative work: visual, tactile and corporal.

Mise en scène by Masao Nihei – recognized for his particular treatment of light in his work on fashion shows – Dream Shop will present 80 silhouettes, from the late 1980s to today. For each of the three locations, a different concept was conceived that closely links up with the architecture of each exhibition space and the museum’s philosophy.

The silhouettes map a course that highlights the essential principles of clothing according to Yohji Yamamoto: the value of the colour black, the use of colour as light, construction of an equilibrium, the traditions and techniques of French couture, and the importance of air as an integral component between body and clothing. The emphasis will be particularly on the decade 1995 to 2005, an era of considerable rethinking of his creations.

Via dexigner.

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posted by : regine on 18 Apr 2006

The Schoen2 is going to take place at the Center of Visual Art Krabbedans, in Eidhoven, The Netherlands. Will exhibit works from young shoe designers, innovation and materials for sport shoes, and a selection of pieces from the Nederlands Leder en Schoenen Museum that best show the history of shoes. Among the names you’ll meet at the exhibition are Rem D. Koolhaas, Jan Jansen, Floris van Bommel, Marloes ten Bhömer, Hester Vlamings, Daphne Bikker, René van den Berg, Suzanne Poorten and many others.