Flavia Amadeu
Transtechnology Research
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Affective Wearables: for a technoecology of fashion
Based on the point-of-being concept created by Derrick de Kerckhove to whom the electronic technologies tend to remap the sensorial life of human beings and on the technoecology concept, an idea posed by artist Eduardo Kac that suggests “that emerging forms of man/machine interfaces drastically alter the foundations of our anthropocentric culture and should in the future reconcile the human body both with the biosphere and with the technosphere” (ARLINDO MACHADO, 2001, 80), the current proposal aims at developing sensorial clothing reconciling high technology with new materials related to sustainability. From this perspective, it is intent on shedding light on aspects of the sensorial oeuvre of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, whose participatory work invites the onlooker to establish a new type of rapport between his/her body and the work of art, as well as to develop a new perception, that of the construction of affective wearables, which, according to Rosalind Picard, establish relations with emotional aspects of the user body and also with his/her environment. In addition, the research aims at drawing on to some typically Brazilian materials, developed by university /institutional researches which aim at sustainable development. The goal is to raise sensorial experiences with a rapport between nature and technology, emotion and reason, science and art, dealing with physical and emotional stimuli of the body in a quest for new poetics of fashion and art.
Key references
FABBRINI, Ricardo N. O Espaço de Lygia Clark. São Paulo: Atlas, 1994.
KERCKHOVE, Derrick de. The Skin of Culture: investigating the new electronic reality. London: Kogan Page, 1997.
MACHADO, Arlindo. O quarto iconoclasto e outros ensaios hereges. Rio de Janeiro: Rios Ambiciosos, 2001 b.
PICARD, Rosalind. Affective Computing. Massachusets: MIT, 1998.
Paper:
Affective Jewellery: towards a more affective human-computer interaction
Academic Background
MA in Arts, University of Brasília, from 2004 to 2006. Research Field: Art and Technology, with a stipend from CAPES. Dissertation: Sensible Symbiosis – affective interactions. Theoretical and practical research on wearable computers and new materials applied to clothing.
BA in Industrial Design, University of Brasília, from 1998 to 2002. Monograph: Contemporary Kayapó Clothing. Theoretical and practical project: development of a fashion collection with reference to body painting of the Brazilian indigenous Kayapó. It was developed conceptual and ready to wear clothes to man and women, a CD-Rom of presentation and the visual identity.
Winter course of German Language in Freiburg, Germany, from DAAD grant, January and February 2007.
Foreign Languages
English: fluent reading, speaking and writing.
German: basic comprehension, reading, speaking and writing.
Spanish: comprehension and reading