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Wearables for socio-urban interaction

Katherine Moriwaki 's work fuses technology, fashion and socio-urban interaction.

She is exhibiting her wearable projects, Inside/Outside and Recoil during the ISEA cruise.

Recoil embeds small magnets into clothing. The magnets have the ability to erase data contained in many memory devices. The wearer creates thus a data-free zone around him/her, which also acts as a form of data terrorism. (Imagine emerging from a throng of people to find that your office swipe-card or credit card no longer works!) RECOIL also heightens awareness in the wearer and others as to the high penetration of digital technologies into our everyday lives and reasserts awareness of bodily presence in the environment.

Inside/Outside are handbags integrated with environmental sensors wich detect temperature, pollution and other atmospheric factors. The idea is to allow processes of reflection and action to create personally invested relationships to the city and other individuals in the urban space.

Today, she will also lead with Jonah-Brucker Cohen a DIY Wearable Challenge workshop.

Read also "In the Forecast -- Art, Research, and Rainstorms" by Gerrit.

Source: [Smart Mobs]

Posted by Gavin on August 18, 2004