new york NEW YORK

In this three-week intensive interdisciplinary research project students will work with experts in the fashion, art, architecture and computing to design and fabricate second skins for the human body. Students will develop computational systems alongside material systems that can be deployed as wearable objects.

“New Skins: An Interdisciplinary Research Project” with Francis BITONTI
07/22–08/08 / Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center (DAHRC)
Pratt Institute
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 10038

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seoul KOREA & hong kong CHINA
A display landscape///
The ‘Shop in Shop’ concept for Neil Barrett is based on a singular, cohesive project that is divided into sixteen separate pieces. Specifi c pieces have then been selected and installed into each of the four Neil Barrett Shop in Shop’s in Seoul, and also into the Hong Kong shop; creating a unique display landscape within each store. Each separate element acts a as piece in a puzzle of the original ensemble, ensuring each shop maintains a relationship to the defi ned whole and with the other Neil Barrett Shop In Shop locations.

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rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS

INTIMACY is a fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments entitled ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people.

Social interactions determine the garments’ level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure.

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thessaloniki GREECE

Aristotle University of Thesaaloniki
critic: Tellios ANASTASIOS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Arsenios ZACHARIADIS: A butterfly-based armor. Studying the structure of a butterfly’s wing I create a system composed by three layers. An underground basis looking like a uniform, a crowd of transformed crater depending on the light intensity of the plane, and an upper layer with tiny spikes.

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rotterdam THE NETHERLANDS

INTIMACY is a fashion project about the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments “Intimacy White” and “Intimacy Black” are made out of opaque smart e-foils which become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people.

Social interactions determine the garments’ level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Ichiro SUZUKI
Graduate Collection, Royal College of Art (RCA)

From the designer: “The initial inspiration came from the patchwork found at tailors which was made in 1895 by one of the employee of Henry Poole & Co. Then I moved on to take a look at optical art works (such as Vasarely, Bridget Riley, and Escher), polygon, and 3-D wire-frame. This project was all about translating the ideas and images that I had in my head into 3-D materials.”

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london UNITED KINGDOM

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Andreea MANDRESCU (Studio Andreea Mandrescu Ltd.): Inlaid Fantasies is based on the research of marquetry and inlay crafts, the material and the aesthetic traditionally used. The aim was to create a new tactile and visual experience that will bring a new perspective on the traditional crafts by implementing them into textile design. The outcome was/is a series of fluid, soft surfaces inlaid and overlaid on fabrics that can be used in fashion, accessories as well as interiors. The predominant combination of materials is fabrics, different kinds of rubber, faux fur, veneers and leather.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Iris van HERPEN presents “Voltage,” her Haute Couture collection for S/S 2013, with contributions from Neri OXMAN and Julia KOERNER.

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dubai, paris, & LUXEMBOURG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Feyrouz ASHOURA: The “Breathtakers” is a hypothetical story about the evolution of the human anatomy. We are stuck between two eras, a time where the human kind has come to face one of the biggest changes of its history. As I am very inspired by the human being and the structure of our body itself, I constantly am in a pursuit of converting the ugliness I can recognize in humans to a so far undiscovered beauty. The whole idea behind this project was built all around the respiratory system, while I imagined it would undergo a mutation to follow the need to breathe under water by pushing our anatomy to another extent of our development, a transition between two kinds—the fusion triggered by the terrestrial and the underwater world that blooms into a newborn species.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Bart Hess (1984) explores several fields combining material studies, animation and photography. With his designs he is able to use new and existing materials in a very innovative way and he seems to tap into new worlds. His work is of international stature, he finds and creates its own stage and international collaborations with prestigious names such as Lady Gaga, Palais de Tokyo, Iris van Herpen, and Nick Knight. With his work he obtained an independent position in the (fashion) world.

Bart HESS, “Work in Progress”
Thursday, 12/13
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA