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Projects and storefronts
I have two projects being presented this week at ISEA and Helsinki Design Week. The first is that I will be presenting Mapplers – a collaborative hand drawn atlas which I am working on – at ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts) in Ruhr, Germany. I am presenting as part of the Ludic Mapping panel [...]
Friend_ship
It’s been some time since last posting and this is just a quickie…. I have recently returned from performing at the Friend_ship performance art festival organised by the Performance Art Union of Latvia. The festival was moving – all the artists travelled together on an ex-fishing boat. We stopped in Riga, Tallin, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen [...]
Mermaids
A quick detour. The beach here is full of sea junk. This inspired Laura Hill and I to make a mermaid costume. She has created a sea shanty and we shot some video for the film clip. The costume is made with sea junk and old plastic bags… more images on my flickr
textile department
I met with Ana Rocha from the textiles department at Minho university. They have a team researching conductive materials for medical use – this involves knitting their own conductive fabric, with elasticised and resistive properties. The lab has some wonderful big knitting machines for garments and fabrics and hopefully I will end up using them [...]
soft(ish) circuit – with plastic bags
Using this technique to make material from plastic bags. I am attempting to make a circuit board for the op amp. I will try one with wire and one with conductive thread, ironing the thread/wire into the material as it is made… Making plastic flat The ironing works quite well, i have experimented with different [...]
Residence at Espaço do Tempo
This week I am taking part in a residency at Espaço do Tempo organised by the Centre for Creative Technologies (info in portuguese here). We are staying in an amazing monastery in the countryside, with castle ruins surrounding us. There is a range of people here to work on their projects – some collaborative and [...]
LCD media lab in Porto
Tonight I joined Sergio in a visit to the LCD media lab in Porto. The group have 3 media labs set up throughout Portugal and are funded by their local councils. This group have a large space on a few floors with some building equipment and a 3d makerbot printer! Tuesday nights are the main [...]
Hello Portugal
I have landed in Porto -This blog will keep track of the research I do towards my thesis project while I am here. I am here on erasmus exchange at the University of Minho in Braga. This Friday I will meet with the faculty to work out a study plan.
Costumes and filming
I have been filming at the Lume TV studio with the costumes Sian and I created in Russia. We have created a cardboard city and are filming monsters creating and destroying it. The film will be mixing live action with animation and will be made for dome cinema. The actors involved were Sarah Alden, Virpi [...]
Residency at Cyland pt 2
Myself and Sian are about to leave the residency and we have a range of masks, some still in progress. Pianowl This guy is made with a mix of soft and hard circuits, using conductive thread, handmade soft buttons and an old kids keyboard. soft circuitry for tone mask Frill neck This one has great [...]