A project in collaboration with the Advance Textiles Research Group – Nottingham Trent University, (UK). Framework Until recently one of the main issues of e-textile research was the integration of electroniccomponents into the textile structures. At present there is a growing interest in the development of textiles based electronic circuits, sensors and actuators. We can observe several directions in this sense: some projects are looking to miniaturize the electronic components, some others...

Call for Papers for August 2017 issue of Studia UBB Philosophia :  Nomadic, Migrating, Commuting, Wearable Technologies and  Their Infrastructures One of the central issues of the present political agenda is the migration crisis. Apart from economical and environmental migration, we assisted in the latest years to the exacerbation of some political conflicts and implicitly to a political-based migration too. The intensification of the phenomena and the debates around migration force...

During 11-15 of April 2016 I was in Boras (Sweden) for Arcintex network's spring workshops and conference. In the first three days I took part in "Interactive Textiles" workshop lead by Delia Dumitrescu and Hanna Landin. Together with Svenja Keune, Berit Greike, Sarah Walker and Juste Peciulyte I worked in a project we called "AL DENTE". The project was inspired by the research project of Svenja Keune. As a PhD student within the ArcInTexETN she is working on adaptive and responsive structures...

Credits: Tincuta Heinzel in collaboration with ATRG – Nottingham Trent University, (UK). Year of Invention: 2015   Description: The present sample is part of a research project which looks to develop a series of graphic (embroidered/printed/knitted) textile based sensors that could function both as manuals (guides) for the construction of such textiles based sensors, as well as signage for announcing the presence of such sensors into the structure of the...

Photo credits: Joanna Bletcher   Back from Paillard (France) and the E-textiles Summer Camp 2015. Great meeting of e-textiles makers and designers! I was part of Industrialisation focus group together with Ebru Kurbak, Mili Tharakan, Becky Stewart. We concentrate on the parallel between textiles and electronics manufacturing processes and we looked at possible paths to follow in the process of industrialising the e-textiles. There were interesting debates...

Repertories of (in)discreetness – a project I initiated with Ioana Macrea-Toma was exhibited at Tranzit Bucharest, featuring mine and Lasse Scherffig's FM radio installation Signal to Noise as well as works by Irina Botea & Jon Dean, and Istvan Laszlo. Exhibition: March 18th-April 1st, 2015 Venue: tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4 Round table: The Radio Free Europe Archives – between historiographical expression and artistic research March...

On 4th of March 2015 I was invited by Clotilde Félix-Fromentin to present my research in the frame of  ENSAPL - Architecture and Landscape National School Lille's doctoral seminar on "Materialities, thinking and culture". The session was dedicated to the notion of "texture" : from augmented textiles materialities and objects to landscapes.   Invited researchers: Tincuta Heinzel (designer, KHM/NTU); Philippe Louguet (architect, LACTH) ; Vincent Gouezou (architect).  ...

LIGHT CURTAIN (2014)   Following a project I started at UdK Berlin, I continued working with LEDs and textiles during my residency at 33 Officina Creativa, Toffia (Italy) in October 2014. Light Curtain was specifically conceived for their theater space. The lights are controlled by a potentiometer and the curtain will be used during performances. 33 Officina Creativa (33OC) is a young nonprofit cultural association based in Toffia, Italy with the aims of diffusing contemporary art...

My and Lasses Scherffig's FM radio installation Signal to Noise was shown during interference.io in the garden of De Binnenpret, Amsterdam. ›› Exhibition/conference: August 15th-17th, 2014 ›› Interference program About Interference Interference, n: preventing (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried out properly. the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or...

  In July 26- August 2, 2014 I took part, like in 2013, to the E-Textiles Summer Camp organised by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi at Paillard Cultural Centre. One of the workshops I took part in was the 3 D printing where Lucie Viry introduce us to the use of silicon for sensors development. I also tried my hand on for a capacitive D.I.Y. sensor. Here is the result. [ngg src="galleries" ids="28" display="basic_thumbnail" override_thumbnail_settings="1" thumbnail_width="400"...

  In 2014 I took part for the second time to the E-Textiles Summer Camp, organised at Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes in Poncé sur le Loir, France by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi. Irene Posch and Anja Hertenberger were the curator of the eTextile Cuvee Exhibition where I presented one version of my Hedgehog Fabric. [ngg src="galleries" ids="29" display="basic_thumbnail" override_thumbnail_settings="1" thumbnail_width="400" thumbnail_height="300"...

During E-textiles Summer Camp 2013, I developed together with Maurin Donneaud and Irene Posch a POV Ribbon. Here is the link for more details.   There were also interesting workshops.

Identité, 1999. Dimensions: 100 x 30 x 50 cm and 30 x 30 cm. Various techniques: papers, manila, silk, video. Identité is a series of prints and drawings all related to identity marks. The central motive, the Islik, is a big circular hat used by the Romanian aristocracy in the XVII and XVIII century. Its dimensions differed according to the social status. Printed on paper or on industrial sacks, drown on silk, Identité plays with the figurative and the iconic status of the image. The same...

COSMOGONIC: AIR, WATER, FIRE, EARTH (1996). Dimensions: 200 x 200 x 300 cm. Mixt technique: iron, wool, manila.