#technosensual

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High-Tech dresses can play a game of Truth or Dare, change from opaque to transparent in response to the heartbeat, or punish the wearer for

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Like living organisms

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Recently developed as part of a TECHNOSENSUAL Artist-in-Residency at MQ, the “SMOKE DRESS” is a collaboration between fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht and technologist Aduen Darriba. The dress is a tangible couture “smoke screen” imbued with the ability to suddenly visually obliterate itself through the excretion of a cloud of smoke. Ambient clouds of smoke are created when the dress detects a visitor approaching, thus camouflaging itself within it’s own materiality. The “SMOKE DRESS,” with its loose net of metallic threads and electrical wire, works at the scale of the magical illusionists trick, permitting a hypothetical magician’s assistant to perform her own disappearing act! (via TECHNOSENSUAL Review Interview with Anouk Wipprecht - Fashioning Technology)

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Pulsating Clothing that Mimics Bodily Response

Here's some prime weirdness. For Technosensual, an Austrian exhibition at the MuseumsQuartier Wien, Dutch firm Local Androids produced "Like Living Organisms," a fabric that mimics your organism's natural activity when you're upset, nervous or ... interested.

The "skin" and "veins" that compose the garment beat visibly in the company of others, then deflate when touched as a "sign of trust", according to the designers.

The hand-painted outfit includes two sensors and air pumps. When a person approaches you, one sensor makes air flow through the outfit's "veins", simulating a pulse. The second sensor flattens the veins when you are touched.

From the designers:

It is made out of a silicone named 'dragon skin,' the same silicone is used to make props for the film industry, like masks or flesh wounds. We painted it with a special silicone paint named 'psycho paint.' The psycho paint is also a form of silicone and can be mixed with regular oil paint or pigment to give it color. We carved skin textures in our molds so when we painted it with thinned reddish psycho paint the skin texture became more visible as you can see on the skin texture closup picture. Then another thin layer of base skin color to give it more depth and finally we added some freckles. The beautiful thing about dragon skin is that you can mix it close to the transparency of human skin. And then build it up like layers of skin starting with the base color then adding a layer of red and finishing with another layer of base skin color.

In the future where we're all androids anyway, garments like these could probably be used to simulate vestiges of our organic origins.

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