On 22 of November 2017 I was invited to speak to the Paris launch of WEAR sustain, a new €3m pan-European project that aims to shift the development of the wearables and e-textile landscape towards a more sustainable and ethical approach. The event hosted by ENSAD Paris addressed the future of ethical and sustainable wearables and e-textiles and was the occasion to announce the project’s second Open Call to fund wearables and smart textiles concepts that address ethics and sustainability....
CALL FOR PAPERS – Studia UBB Philosophia : Nomadic, Migrating, Commuting, Wearable Technologies and Their Infrastructures
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...
Final report IOST
AL DENTE TEXTILES – Arcintex ’16 Boras
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...
PERFORMATIVE OBJECTS, AUGMENTED MATERIALS, CRITICAL ACTORS.
Between 16th - 27th of November 2015 I was invited to teach a course at the National University of the Arts in Bucharest on interactive art and design. The course was addressed to master students from Textile and Fashion Department. Course description: The course "Performative Objects, Augmented Materials, Critical Actors" addresses the issues related to the increasingly presence of interactive objects, reactive materials and connected producers. Made possible by the...
WHAT’S A FABRIC?
My text "What’s a Fabric? Concepts and Approaches to Modern Textile Design" has been published in Architectura Journal, no.3/2015, in a special issue dedicated to "Materials and Materialities".
KAUNAS BIENNALE
Following Janis Jefferies and Karen Gaskill invitation, I took part between 20-21 of September 2015 in the Sonic Pattern and Textility of Code Seminar along with Myrto Karanika, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, David Littler, James Bulley and Alex McLean. The seminar was organized in the frame of Kaunas Biennale and supported by British Council. Bellow is the program of the seminar. PROGRAMME: Seminar: 10.30am – 4.30pm, Monday 21st September, 2015...
ARTFUL SPARK TALK, FURTHERFIELD, LONDON
On 15th of September I made a presentation of “An Internet of Soft Things” project in the frame of Artful Spark, Furtherfield, London. Artful Spark is a new series of quarterly events facilitating better communication and collaboration between creative technologists and arts/media professionals* Artful Spark is not a sales pitch or a soapbox, but a way for people who might not know about projection mapping or haptic controllers to see technologies demo’d and discuss their...
DRAWING SENSORS – E-TEXTILES SWATCH BOOK 2015
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...
E-TEXTILES SUMMER CAMP 2015
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...
SYNTHETIC BEUYS : ON NANO – MATERIALS AND THE AESTHETICS OF IMPERCEPTIBILITY
My paper "Synthetics Beuys : on Nano-Materials and the Aesthetics of Imperceptibility" was published in the No.15 of Artnodes. Abstract This paper brings into attention the paradoxical nature of nano-objects and analyses the relationship between an imperceptible matter (too small to be perceived by the senses) and its forms of sensible manifestation. The development of nano-sciences and nano-technologies would have not been possible without the invention of a number of...
REPERTORIES OF (in)DISCREETNESS
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...
SIGNAL TO NOISE AND GHOST VEIL
SIGNAL TO NOISE and GHOST VEIL : presentation of two artistic researches on reconstructing the “otherness” based on archive means OSA Lectures, Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary, 12 March 2015. „Signal to Noise” and “Ghost Veil” are two installations part of “Repertories of (in)discreetness” project initiated by Tincuta Heinzel and Ioana Macrea-Toma. The project has its starting point in the archive of Radio Free Europe from the Open Society Archivum in Budapest. It...
“TEXTURES” DOCTORAL SEMINAR, ENSAPL – LILLE (FR)
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). ...
ARCINTEX’15 NETWORK MEETING
ARCINTEX'15 NETWORK MEETING Arcintex Network Meeting took place at Nottingham Trent University in February 2015. I was in charge with the coordination of the workshops and I made a presentation during the symposium. I also participate in the set up of two of the workshops : "Cutting to Build" and "Pedagogy of Electronic Textiles - How to Teach Interactivity" workshops. Arcintex'15 Symposium, Nottingham Trent University (GB). Dates: 23-27 of February 2015. Location: Nottingham Trent...
LIGHT CURTAIN
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...
INTERFERENCE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
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...
SILICON BASED CAPACITIVE SENSOR
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"...
E-TEXTILE CUVEE 2014 EXHIBITION
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"...
DESIGN OR NOT DESIGN: ON OPEN DIGITAL PRODUCTION AND ITS CONTEXTS
DESIGN OR NOT DESIGN: ON OPEN DIGITAL PRODUCTION AND ITS CONTEXTS Amber'13 Festival Istanbul, Turkey 7-8 November 2014 Moderator: Tincuta Heinzel The establishment of industrious ways of production was possible due to a series of technical inventions and innovations. The industrialization also leaded to an important change of the way things were consumed, allowing not only a highest production rhythm, but also a highest consumption rate. Along with the massification of the...