Saturday June 5th, 14.00
Atelier Nord Project Room
Diffus is a Danish/French design duo with a practical approach to art, design and new media. At the end of 2009 they launched The Climate Dress, a piece of clothing which senses and visualizes levels of pollution in the environment through hundreds of small LED lights inserted into the embroidery. The duo is now developing solar cells sized and formed as sequins.
The presentation is the culmination of a week long worklab at Atelier Nord with the topic E-textiles and alternative energy. A group of textile artists, media artists and designers have worked together to form an E-textiles installation which senses and communicates environmental conditions through physical changes in the textile. Experiences and results from the worklab will also be presented.
The presentation and the worklab is part of Soft Technology, a project aiming at research and competence building within electronic textiles and textile electronics in Scandinavia.
See also http://diffus.dk
Ivar Smedstad and Herwig Weiser present electrochemical scenography for the stage production of Øyvind Rimbereid’s poem Solaris Korrigert during the Ad Hoc festival at the Oslo National Theatre on May 25th at 19.30 hrs.
The project, which is a part of Atelier Nord’s focus on Live Video, combines a video projection of a live chemical process by the Austrian artist Herwig Weiser with directly generated sequences of Ivar Smedstad’s video art. For tickets and more information www.nationaltheatret.no
Interactive textiles and how textiles visualize the environment and power my mobile.
From 1st till 4th of June, Diffus Design holds a four-day worklab at Atelier Nord.
Diffus is a design company, working with theoretical and practical approach towards art, design, architecture and new media. http://diffus.dk
The theme of the worklab is interactive textiles, soft circuits and alternative energy.
We will investigate different kinds of textile conductive techniques, use of photovoltaic materials and Arduino Lilypads. The worklab will include an individual introduction to the Lilypad, programming and conductive materials. The final result will be a group project presented to the public, making an environmental statement with alternative use of solar cells, LEDs, optical fibers, thermochromic ink or other materials that offer an interactive approach to textiles
We are working from the point of view that what you see is what you get. Electronics and circuits are not hidden, but become a crucial part of the expression and the aesthetics. There has always to some degree been alienation in the relation between man and technology – on the other hand textiles are the most integrated materials in our everyday life. What happens when new technology gets integrated with the well-known textiles. Our everyday use of textiles combined with our everyday need for electronic devices to guide and amuse us will be the essential starting point of the workshop, theoretically as well as practically.
The worklab is a part of the e-textile project Soft Technology at Atelier Nord. The project is supported by the Norwegian Arts Council and Nordic Culture Point.
Experience with e-textiles and programming is required.
Apply to participate in the worklab by using this form.
Application deadline: 15 May 2010.
Participants fee: NOK 500.
