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TechnoThreads: What Fashion Did Next
The Art and Science of Future Fashion
Images on CD:
1. Manel Torres: Fabrican.
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Photographer to credit: Gene Kiegel (c), www.GeneKiegel.com
Details about the Fabrican:
FabriCan_aware of the slow process of constructing garments, Manel Torres of Fabrican investigated new and novel ways to speed up this process.
This led him to think of developing a material that would magically and somewhat mythologically fit the body like a second skin and at the same time
have the appearance of clothing. it offers a whole new way of making and wearing clothes, literally fabric in a can.
2. TechnoThreads Head
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Image: Morag Myerscough/studiomyerscough.com
This image is the main marketing image used for the exhibition.
Conceptual Laboratory
Victimless Leather (closeup) by Tissue and Culture: 02.jpg
Victimless Leather by Tissue and Culture: victimless_leather.jpg
From the Stone Age humans have been covering their bodies with animal skins to protect themselves from the harsh external environment. In today’s world wearing parts of dead animals for protective garments worries some people for moral and aesthetic reasons. The ‘Victimless Leather’ project is concerned with growing living tissue into a leather-like material that makes an artistic garment which confronts this dilemma. It also challenges our relationships with living systems, manipulated or otherwise. The ‘Victimless Leather’ is grown cells cultured to form a living layer of tissue supported by a biodegradable polymer matrix in the form of a miniature stitch-less coat like shape.
Wine Dress (in progress) by Donna Franklin & Garry Cass: 12.jpg
Finished wine dress by Donna Franklin & Garry Cass: barrel2cropped.jpg
Within the recent project ‘Micro’be’ by Donna Franklin, garments are fermented from solutions of wine and beer, including a special experiment with Guinness for this exhibition. The ultimate aim is to cultivate seamless, biosynthetic garments without involving a single stitch.
The solutions of wine and beer are left to ferment over time in reaction to the addition of sugar, forming a surface skin, which when dense enough is removed and dried around body forms. The skin moulds itself into the desired shape.
Luna Dress by Critz Campbell : Luna3.tif
Aesthetics of Science
Heart Man by Walter van Beirendonck: Heart_man.jpg
Sex Angel by Walter van Beirendonck: Sexangel.jpg
Belgian designer Van Beirendonck is fascinated by the applications of new technology in fashion and for the human body. He has explored themes of cloning and the idea of artificially extending the body.
Brand X by KnoWear: Fendi_01.jpg
Have you ever thought what brand addiction might look like if you go to extremes? KnoWear’s art installation will show you. It is a series of three-dimensional sculptures depicting what a ‘skin disease’ caused by brand addiction might look like.
KnoWear illustrates three types of brand addiction on full size mannequins. Each one depicts an area of the body ravaged by a disease created by logos! Photographs depict cropped details of these diseased body parts. The three-dimensional sculptures or mannequins displayed are modern girls in languid stances and big glamour poses. The mannequins are sculpted with logos growing out of the skin!
New Fabric Technology
Silence Dress by Alyce Santoro: silencefrillyfront.jpg
Ever thought your clothes could play music? ‘SonicFabric’ is durable and strikingly beautiful as well as being audible. The fabric contains magnetic tape woven in during the weaving process. When a tape head (such as is used in cassette players) touches the fabric sounds are generated. This is because the tape retains its magnetic quality throughout the weaving process. ‘SonciFabric’ was inspired by Tibetan prayer flags inscribed with wind-activated blessings and recycled strips of cassette tape used on boat sails to show the direction of the wind.
‘SonicFabric’ has been sewn into handbags and used in silkscreen flags that generate ambient sounds and other music.
Photogram Shirts by Becky Earley: EverandAgain2007.JPG
The end of a year approaches
It is very strange to think that 2007 is almost in. When we were younger, the days seemed to last forever, Christmas was a long and wonderous holiday filled with presents, playing games and generally being absorbed in a world of make-believe. Now, with a lucky two days off, I am back to work and Christmas, as my mother says, 'is as far away as it will ever be'; I know now what she meant!
That small, and probably 'said too many times' point endeth there.
Happy New Year!
at- 3 St Davids Terrace on Friday 14th December at 7pm.
Join us for an evening of mulled wine, mince pies and mixed media as we bring you a house party with a twist.
Helen McNulty is opening her home for one night only to present some of the finest talents on the Irish Arts scene today, showcasing a mix of established and emerging painters and illustrators from throughout the country.
Artists include:
George Potter RHA
Comhghall Casey
Helen McNulty
Brian Gallagher
Paul Stuart
Clare Star
Lorna Smyth
Patrick Brocklebank
Michael McWilliams
Friday 14th December at 7pm
3, St Davids Terrace, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 (Behind Met Éireann, Bus routes 19, 83 and 13 all go to Met Éireann)
Contact Helen for more information by emailing helenmcnultyart@gmail.com
Another month, another showdown in the online world of Saatchi. I would be really grateful if you could spare 5 minutes of your day (if I can prise you all away from work/Facebook!) to vote for my painting "O'Connell St in the Rain" at the showdown.
The link to the piece is: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=103737 I
f you like/ don't like it please email me to let me know. If you love it, then please feel free to add it to your favourites on the site.
Thanks a million everyone.
Helen x
Last night was 'Female Allstars Night' , a great chance to see some of the talent out there in Dublin both in art and in music. One of my highlights was Ophelia, a dublin based talent who combines a rap style with melodic sounds that mirror life in urban Ireland today. A tiger cub, Ophelia has a lot to say about the way the streets of Dublin treat her. And of course, she had the whole crowd going, with the rhythm of her words and her captivating voice.
I was very proud to have been included (at the last minute!) with 2 of my paintings being displayed in there. Hanging art in clubs is the new way to do it. The younger artists out there who are afraid of the older galleries, can put their work up for relatively little cost, and get the coverage they desire. The prices they make for the pieces won't mirror the gallery prices, but there is no commission and the work is being shown to a much wider demographic. The future of us lies with us, and I have decided in that short space of time, to bring my art out into the world in the ways I know how, rather than having to do it exactly as the generation before have done.
Oh yeah, and The Kennedy Gallery in Harcourt Street had the opening of the Christmas show last night, and I had a painting in it. There was a really good turn out to the opening, and I was surprised as it was quite a miserable night out.
I look forward to posting more blogs on here about many more future art projects... Until then Good Luck
IE
