Tag Archives: Softwearables

Domestic Science Club @ INVITRO – Thursday 31/5/2012 from 19h

Domestic Science Club welcomes you Thursday 31/5/2012 at Recyclart/INVITRO. 20:30h Wendy Van Wynsberghe – The Kissing Protocol Wendy Van Wynsberghe will demonstrate some greeting protocols, re-enacted by the public. How can a group greet each other? Can we make new future greetings? By means of current, conductive textile, threads and sensors, cheeks will be dressed […]

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Plankton Bar #39 & Documenting something you have done before but forgot how to do it

The month of March and April 2011, I’m in a residency in Bains::Connective. I also continue my Constant activities simultaneously. For the second public moment of this residency, Plankton Bar #39 on the first of April, some Softwearables I have made will be presented. Here’s the little text I wrote about the Plankton bar (always […]

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Wearable tech

On Thursday I gave a little presentation at the academy ESAPV in Mons. I was invited by the Arts Numérique department run by Michel Cleempoel. (arts numérique could be translated as digital art) The morning began with a little presentation. I started out with talking a bit about Constant, what I do as a member […]

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Softwearables – do(n’t) stand so close to me part 2 – a story and some code

Tomorrow there is the opening of Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, and I was asked to show a bit of Softwearables in one of the Constant rooms in the building. I decided to work on the project I presented at The Ever Mass land in July – and to add sound to it plus […]

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Getting started with sewing electronics : materials and lovely switches

Hannah Perner Wilson and Mika Satomi have made this second little chapter on sewing electronics really easy for me. I don’t have to do anything except point you to their website. To get started, go to that excellent reference archive: http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/. To learn more about possible materials you can use for sewing with electronics: start […]

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The material archive of Fo.am

In 2005, Fo.am organized a series of workshops – and one of them was entitled Softwear. I chose the name Softwearables to refer to their work – a kind of attribution. In this workshop series a lot of new materials were looked at: conductive thread and textiles, but also thermochromatic stuff (reacting to heat), UV-sensitive […]

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Bending sensors that prefer being pushed…

With the Instructable from Plusea as a guideline, I sewed two sensors that you should react to bening your finger – all this with the eventual purpose to be able to measure a handshake. These sensors we tested in the Arduino – midi workshop in the recently founded Hackerspace Brussels. Some software and an oscilloscope […]

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Opening Ever Mass Land – New Years reception

From February to the end of July, bolwerK are artist in residence in TBC (from Nadine) in Schaarbeek Brussels. BolwerK’s stay in The Ever Mass Land (TBC) is all about work, cooperation, networking. This is quite apparent in the way bolwerK connects organisations, the neighbourhood, the neighbours, next door cultural centre De kriekelaar, people and […]

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