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I'm participating from Amsterdam with Fab Lab Waag as my local lab. +This my documentation blog/notebook for the Fabricademy Course of 2019. I'm participating from Amsterdam with Fab Lab Waag as my local lab. ## About me @@ -18,23 +18,21 @@ I know Shirley back from when I did the Fabacademy in 2015. It put a lot of nice <div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/155540856?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> -This year, I'm able to join the Fabricademy with the generous support of my university. There's recently been a great interest in practices that could be called critical making, and we're looking to expand our research and education more specifically toward critical making in the context of the fashion industry. What would be a better place to get started than here? This truly is a bucket list moment for me <3. - ## Why fabricademy? -Well, it's kind of all the things I love combined! I enjoy learning and a bit of a challenge, and the things I could practice here could be a leg-up for a larger personal project I have in mind in collaboration with a terrific community of innovative performers. But we'll see. +This year, I'm able to join the Fabricademy with the generous support of my university. This program directly ties in with some current developments: there's recently been a great interest in practices that could be called critical making, and we're looking to expand our research and education more specifically toward critical making in the context of the fashion industry. What would be a better place to get started than here? This truly is a bucket list moment for me <3. -And as I said it also directly ties in with some current developments at the local university where I teach and am involved in research on critical making. I'd love bringing the wealth of knowledge generated by the people here to students and colleagues like I've done after finishing Fabacademy. +PLus, it's kind of all the things I love combined! I enjoy learning and a bit of a challenge, and the things I could practice here will be a starting point for a personal project I have in mind in collaboration with a terrific community of innovative performers. I'm looking into a collaboration with local drag performers. ##Some related previous work -I have a BA in Media and Cultural Studies and a MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory & Practice. I'm definitely a bit of a hybrid practitioner and a large part of me is bookish and researchy, but I very much enjoy this combination. I know about areas of (digital) media, electronics, some coding, and digital fabrication. Although I've sewn my own clothes I don't have much fashion in my background besides a 32-year for vintage clothes and dressing up unapologetically whether there's an occasion or not. The projects I have done tend to deal with gender, embodiment, data and some kind of politics. Here's a few: +I have a BA in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory & Practice from Goldsmiths, London. I'm definitely a bit of a hybrid practitioner and a large part of me is bookish and researchy, but I very much enjoy this combination. I know about areas of (digital) media, electronics, some coding, and digital fabrication. Although I've sewn my own clothes I don't have much fashion in my background besides a 32-year for vintage clothes and dressing up unapologetically whether there's an occasion or not. The projects I have done tend to deal with gender, embodiment, data and often some kind of politics. Here's a few: ### Movement-moving machines -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! +This is a project where I looked into dance systems and dynamics of music, migration, 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! - + ### Dancecoding @@ -49,7 +47,7 @@ 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 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. @@ -65,18 +63,16 @@ I saw [Jessica's work](https://class.textile-academy.org/2019/jessica.stanley/pr 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. +And the pleat switch and this sensor below. OMG Jessica stop it nowwww I'm totally fangirling your fabricademy page. This makes me think I will really enjoy the electronics work in the next few months :zap:  -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!** @@ -94,43 +90,37 @@ This is something I've been obsessed with for a long time. I think the innovativ 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. - +Or drag performer 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/). +**Other fabulous drag performers and style queens** - +Such as Aynouk Tan - you can worry about the clothing mountain - or just dress up as one. I think [her thinking and personal style](https://www.aynouktan.com/) are really out there. -**for reference: Bauhaus costumes from the 1920s:** + -/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/57322995/escola_bauhaus.0.0.jpg) +**And I bow to Valeska Jasso Collado for her graduation collection** -**And Aynouk Tan, who - you can worry about the clothing mountain - or just dress up as one** +These theatrical garments have an amazing genderclowning vibe about them, they remind me of [1920s Bauhaus costumes](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/U4wEGXhe1duKVyacjE6z3KsIFZg=/0x0:1000x645/1200x800/filters:focal(420x243:580x403)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/57322995/escola_bauhaus.0.0.jpg)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/). - + **My own students!!** -They continue to inspire, teach and challenge(!) me loads. Some of their experiments were really great, like Kristin & Frida's skin sensor (with some help of Geert) from 2018: +The students I get to know during the minor Makers Lab continue to inspire, teach and challenge(!) me loads. Some of their experiments were really great! - + -Melissa and Elisa's and bioplastics experiments to research how they could make this gorgeous tote bag (2019): +Top left is Geert Lens' textile touchscreen entirely made from scratch (2018). He developed a ropemaker to insulate conductive thread, a loom to make the textile, and of course programmed the sensor himself. - +Geert also made this glove (bottom left) that vibrates when it senses peaks in electromagnetic fields, such as when a subway train pulls out of a station (together with Anton Westin and Jaap Spruitenburg 2018). The wanted to explore invisible signals in the city and found that some people are extremely sensitive to EMFs, whereas most of us aren't even aware of them. -And Geert's textile touchscreen entirely made from scratch (2018). He developed a ropemaker to insulate conductive thread, a loom to make the textile, and of course programmed the sensor himself: +Melissa de Bie and Elisa van der Burg's and bioplastics experiments to research how they could make the gorgeous tote bag in 2019 (middle). - +Kristin Jakubek & Frida Eriksson's skin sensor (with some help of Geert) from 2018 (top right). -Geert also made this glove that vibrates when it senses peaks in electromagnetic fields, such as when a subway train pulls out of a station (together with Anton and Jaap 2018). The wanted to explore invisible signals in the city and found that some people are extremely sensitive to EMFs, whereas most of us aren't even aware of them. +Geert's coils that pick up some residue energy from RFID scanners, just enough to light up an LED (bottom right). - ### Books @@ -141,27 +131,26 @@ Geert also made this glove that vibrates when it senses peaks in electromagnetic * Supersurfaces" Folding as Method of Generating Forms for Architecture, Products and Fashion by Sophia Vyzoviti ### Textile artists/designers/upcyclists/hackers - -**[Golden Joinery](http://goldenjoinery.com/#about) or kintsugi for clothing, by Painted Series** + - +*Images: Golden Joinery (image by Droog) in the background, Justyna Wolodkiewicz' embellishments (left) and Anya Hindmarch's embellished skirt (image by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images Europe)* -**These hectic embellishments! Seem like these could be made with all sorts of random recycled stuff if well-chosen, by Justyna Wolodkiewicz** +**[Golden Joinery](http://goldenjoinery.com/#about) or kintsugi for clothing, by Painted Series** is a really nice example of repair as a design strategy that adds value to used things. - +I really enjoy the hectic **embellishments by Justyna Wolodkiewicz** and the one on the **pink skirt by Anya Hindmarch** There's loads out there. One reason why I like this is because I imagine picking cleverly from waste materials will allow for a lot of cool designs. They can also be combined with electronics perhaps? I really like the 3D textures you can add with this. -**Somewhat related, these clever embellishments by Anya Hindmarch in 2016** +**Coral Love Stories by Kasia Molga (and Erik Overmeire)** below is such a beautiful combination of fashion and electronics and thermochromic pigments. It's very subtle, unlike some other sources of inspiration but I just think this is beautifully done and tells an important story about shringking coral reefs. <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)** +And let's not forget the amazing experiments and documentation done by **[Plusea on the Kobakant How to Get What You Want page](https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/)**, such as this beardy sway sensor....*bows*.  -**[Kobakant's](https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/) amaaaaaazing experiments and documentation, such as this beardy sway sensor....*bows*** +Last but not least, a shop! **[Mooizooi in Haarlem](https://mooizooi.org/)!** This is a social enterprise that collects waste materials from industry, sort it by color, and sell it for almost nothing. I'd love to stop by there and use only this leftover material, for example to make the embellishments like the ones below. -**[Mooizooi in Haarlem](https://mooizooi.org/)! A social enterprise that collects waste materials from industry, sort it by color, and sell it for almost nothing. I'd love to stop by there and use only this leftover material** +That's it for now! :boom: