May 22nd, 2010
[ new release of a book, 'Metamorphosis' & two projects in it ]
Two of the past wearable projects, ‘HearWear‘ & ‘Stir It On!‘ are featured in the newly released book ‘Metamorphosis’ by Stoffel Kuenen and Elisabetta Cianfanelli, from the University of Florence, Department of Industrial Design and Fashion Design. At fashioningtech.com, there is an article about this book’s release. From the article, this book deals with a very interesting subject in fashion & technology. I will soon get a copy of this book and I’m excited to finding out what’s inside!
Here is where you can purchase ‘Metamorphosis’ >>>
Metamorphosis is in both Itlalian and English.
March 29th, 2010
[ Interview at Fashioning Technology ]
Younghui had an interview regarding her recent project, ‘Body Graffiti v.1.0′ with Syuzi from fashioningtech.com last month. Below are excerpt from the article, “Body Graffiti — A Kinetic Display Created Through Dance & Movement”
When did you become interested in performance wearables?
My first wearable project was a costume (a future media jacket) for a performance, ‘AfroFuturistic’ at The Kitchen, New York, 2003. I could say that I’ve always been interested in performance wearables from the moment I started to create fashion items integrated with technology.
Dancers, more particularly modern & experimental dancers, have been early adopters of wearable technology. What do you see as the attraction for dancers to integrate wearable technology into their costumes and performance?
I find that wearable itself can be an expressive media platform. At the same time, worn by a performer during performance, it elevates expressibility of body language as creating a stronger media platform combining two forms of media that have been so close to art and technology – wearable and performance. I’m sure modern & experimental dancers are attracted to wearable technology for the same reason that I am attracted to as one of wearable technology artists.
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Interactive fashion lets costumers wear devices on their sleeves
Does this computer come in a Size 6?
An article written by Mark Guarino has a couple of quotes from an interview with Younghui Kim, an wearable media artist who has been working on fashion technology projects since 2003. She was staying in LES, New York working on her various projects when she was interviewed over the phone late January.
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Having designers rethink sewing as coding takes extreme patience and a willingness to collaborate, says Younghui Kim, a self-described “interactive wearable media artist” in New York who teaches at Hongik University in Korea.
Ms. Kim is a rarity in the fashion world: She became interested in design only after working for years in telecommunications. Staring at computer screens all day created “a really strong need to design something [she] could feel or touch.”
“So I started picking up sewing machines and fabrics, and I designed like a software engineer,” she says. At the time, around 2002, it was frustrating for her to see designers make interactive clothing that was functional, rather than beautiful or comfortable.
She created “HearWear,” a series of couture skirts laden with sensors that trigger illuminating wires depending on how loud the area is. The skirt becomes “a city ear painting,” she says.
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This is a good article about where fashion technology is now and where it is heading and Here is the link if you like to read the full article at The Christian Science Monitor >>>
and ABC News >>>
