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I am Loes Bogers (not me in the pic though). I live in Rotterdam, but I'm from lovely Southern city Eindhoven, and I work in Amsterdam. My work home is the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences where I work as a researcher at the Visual Methodologies Collective, and coordinator and educator of a semester course on (critical) making and digital fabrication. - - - I’m currently working on a book project with Letizia Chiappini and Geert Lovink called the *Critical Maker’s Reader: (Un)Learning Technology*. It's an edited volume that addresses questions around contemporary critical making. What might making become after the recent death knell of MAKE magazine, its maker faires and the maker movement they envisioned? What was making before? What could it become? The reader will come out as a printed book and open access ePub, and will be published by the Institute of Network Cultures in November 2019. I work with students on related practices and topics in the interdisciplinary semester course [*Makers Lab: Making as Research*](https://makerslab.hotglue.me/start) that I developed with Shirley Niemans. ### Back in 2015... @@ -35,7 +32,7 @@ I have a BA in Media and Cultural Studies and a MA in Interactive Media: Critica ### Movement-moving machines -This is a project where I looked into dance systems and dynamics of music, spaces and touch. I hacked two pair of tap dancing shoes to make a sound system that can be turned on and off as people touch or let go. The start of my love affair with electronics! +This is a project where I looked into dance systems and dynamics of music, spaces and touch. For one experiment I hacked two pair of tap dancing shoes to make a sound system that can be turned on and off as people touch or let go. The very start of my love affair with electronics!  @@ -52,39 +49,99 @@ I founded the Body Recovery Unit with Alexandra Joensson. BRU is an arts-based f Earlier this year I joined [Hackers & Designers](https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Summer_Academy_2019): an initiative that attempts to break down the barriers between the two fields by enforcing a common vocabulary through education, hacks and collaboration. One of the first projects I worked on with them was the Hackers & Designers Summer Academy on the theme of *Coded Bodies* where we did loads of experiments with different technologies and how they relate to our understanding and experience of the body. - + -One of the things I really enjoyed working on was this party outfit I made with Anja Groten & Julliette Lizotte during Erik Overmeire's workshop on wearables. It was inspired by Kajsa Dahlberg's fantastic film [*Reach, Grasp, Move, Position, Apply Force*](http://kajsadahlberg.com/work/reach-grasp-move-position-apply-force/) (2014-2015), about the bodily regimes and Methods-Time-Measurement systems in the context of Amazon fulfilment centers. Highly recommended. +One of the things I really enjoyed working on was this party outfit I made with Anja Groten & Julliette Lizotte during Erik Overmeire's 2-day workshop on wearables. It was inspired by Kajsa Dahlberg's fantastic film [*Reach, Grasp, Move, Position, Apply Force*](http://kajsadahlberg.com/work/reach-grasp-move-position-apply-force/) (2014-2015), about the bodily regimes and Methods-Time-Measurement systems in the context of Amazon fulfilment centers. Highly recommended. -### Bioqueening -OK so this is totally a hobby but something I've been obsessed with for a long time. I'm a bit of a bioqueen/drag king when I can find the time, with friends and colleagues or whoever wants to join. I think the innovative ways of thinking about the malleability and unstable nature of the body and gender is super interesting and made me fall in love with this art form. No RuPaul quote is lost on me (she'd done already done had herses - and you know it). I'd love to take as many assignments as possible and take it towards the art of drag to develop into a larger project later. +## Inspiration - +### Fabricademy graduates + -## Inspiration +**Jessica Stanley's Stitch Synth** +I saw [Jessica's work](https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/jessica.stanley/projects/00final-project/) at the last Fabricademy expo in Amsterdam. Super nicely done. + +I also really liked her experiments with tesselation in the Textile as Scaffold week. The slow movements the textile creates are really nice to watch. + + + +And also her voronoi for [computational couture](https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/jessica.stanley/assignments/week07/) are so cool. She printed these shapes on stretchy fabric, making the textile pull itself into a 3D shape. + +And this pleat switch! Stop it nowwww. This makes me think I will really enjoy the electronics work in the next few months. + + +Ok Jessica, I hope it's not too awkward that I'm totally fangirling your fabricademy page. + +**Teresa van Twuijver's analog soft sensor** +[Teresa](https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/teresa.vantwuijver/assignments/week05/) made this nice soft sensor using smock embroidery. I'd seen a similar thing on kobakant once, wow it's soooooo nice. + +Her [circular fashion designs](https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/teresa.vantwuijver/assignments/week03/) are also quite cool! + +**Barbara's Kombucher!** +Really cool idea to make a tool like this [kombucha fiber printer](https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/barbara.arteaga/projects/final-project/) + +<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cuHtJgnv2qU" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> + +And many many more... + + +### Go big or go home: drag performers +This is something I've been obsessed with for a long time. I think the innovative ways of thinking about the malleability and unstable nature of the body and gender is super interesting and made me fall in love with this art form. I do it myself sometimes too :) No RuPaul quote is lost on me (we're all born naked and the rest is...you know the rest). I'd love to take as many assignments as possible closer toward something that might be applicable in the context of the art of drag to develop into a larger project later. I imagine eco-aware drag could be a very interesting avenue to explore. In the meantime, I'll summarize as: go big, or go home. + +**House of Holographic Hoes** + +A local house who did an amazing show at last year's superball, with over the top LED powered gowns. I mean, I really don't like LED strips so much, especially not in clothing but context IS everything. + + + +**Other drag performers ** + +Like Milk in this knitted number by Hana Quist. Oh yes. + + +**Valeska Jasso Collado's graduation collection** + +This reminds me of Bauhaus fashion and I love it! She folded latex-covered foam into [geometric garments](https://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/09/valeska-jasso-collado-westminster-fashion-collection/). + + + +**for reference: Bauhaus costumes from the 1920s:** + +/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/57322995/escola_bauhaus.0.0.jpg) + +**And Aynouk Tan, who - while some worry about the clothing mountain - just dresses up as one** + + + +### Books +* Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by Kate Franklin +* Zeroes and Ones by Sadie Plant +* Fray by Julia Bryan-Wilson +* Folding Techniques for Designers From Sheet to Form by Paul Jackson +* Superstructures by ....?????? + +### Textile artists/designers/upcyclists/hackers + + +**[Golden Joinery](http://goldenjoinery.com/#about) or kintsugi for clothing, by Painted Series ** + + + +**These hectic embellishments! Seem like these could be made with all sorts of random recycled stuff if well-chosen, by Justyna Wolodkiewicz** + + + +**Somewhat related, these clever embellishments by Anya Hindmarch in 2016** + +<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/211299558?color=00d554&byline=0&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> +**Coral Love Stories by Kasia Molga (and Erik Overmeire)** -lizan freijsen -erik overmeire's koraalproject -allerlei frutsels op textiel borduren -recycling kit met gouddraad -alles van kobakant + -bauhaus couture hahaha -go big or go home -color changing pigment +**[Kobakant's](https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/) amaaaaaazing experiments and documentation, such as this beardy sway sensor....*bows*** -house of holographic hoes -voorbeelden van rupaul -bart hess -aynouk tan -radical matter -zeroes and ones -fringe -folding structures -superstructures book -updated index page