Monday, May 17, 2010
DR JAYNE WALLACE
Dr Jayne Wallace is an Artist, Jeweller and Researcher. She gained her PhD in 2007 from Sheffield Hallam University. Her doctoral research was a practice-centred enquiry of digital jewellery and personal significance. She often presents, discusses and opens her work up to the disciplines of Human Computer Intercation, Interaction Design and Product Design.
She explores how jewellery can act to express and play a role within what we each consider to be meaningful for us in our lives and how the expression of this can be expanded through the integration of digital technologies.
Jayne acknowldeges the current existing werable technology developed by corporates, but these have been developed by designers and not jewellers, therefore they have different focuses and motivations, the thrust is the technology, not the jewellery or the person.
Dr Wallace's research methodologies have been to work with individuals; asking questions in different ways through the use of objects and interviews and then to make jewellery in response to these which have digital capabilities specific to that individual. Her aim is to make pieces which echo aspects of the participant's lives that they feel to be meaningful, as well as unavoidably echoing her own criteria for significance.
One of her first resulting pieces from this extensive research was the "Sometimes" necklace made from enamelled copper, ceramic and synthetic silk. It was a piece made for a specific person and when worn, the necklace has the capability of communicating a small number of silent image sequences, of significance to the wearer, onto digital displays in the near radius of the necklace. These digital 'visits' will do not occur often, only occasionally. The digital potential is future focused, where these sequences could occur in a personal or public environment. When these digital events occurthe result may be an environment where, for a few seconds, the surroundings appear to be paying particular attention to the wearer; the locality is literally acknowledging something personally meaningful, these moments are for and about the wearer.
What I liked from her work is the primary focus on jewellery and the wearer and the tecnology being secondary but still a significant component, i think this makes for much more aesthetic pieces and avoids the 'tacky-ness' that can often come from trying to integrate the two. I also the the personal significance of each piece, this creates unique pieces as no two people are the same.
This technology also has interesting prospects for the future in helping people suffering from dementia.
She explores how jewellery can act to express and play a role within what we each consider to be meaningful for us in our lives and how the expression of this can be expanded through the integration of digital technologies.
Jayne acknowldeges the current existing werable technology developed by corporates, but these have been developed by designers and not jewellers, therefore they have different focuses and motivations, the thrust is the technology, not the jewellery or the person.
Dr Wallace's research methodologies have been to work with individuals; asking questions in different ways through the use of objects and interviews and then to make jewellery in response to these which have digital capabilities specific to that individual. Her aim is to make pieces which echo aspects of the participant's lives that they feel to be meaningful, as well as unavoidably echoing her own criteria for significance.
One of her first resulting pieces from this extensive research was the "Sometimes" necklace made from enamelled copper, ceramic and synthetic silk. It was a piece made for a specific person and when worn, the necklace has the capability of communicating a small number of silent image sequences, of significance to the wearer, onto digital displays in the near radius of the necklace. These digital 'visits' will do not occur often, only occasionally. The digital potential is future focused, where these sequences could occur in a personal or public environment. When these digital events occurthe result may be an environment where, for a few seconds, the surroundings appear to be paying particular attention to the wearer; the locality is literally acknowledging something personally meaningful, these moments are for and about the wearer.
What I liked from her work is the primary focus on jewellery and the wearer and the tecnology being secondary but still a significant component, i think this makes for much more aesthetic pieces and avoids the 'tacky-ness' that can often come from trying to integrate the two. I also the the personal significance of each piece, this creates unique pieces as no two people are the same.
This technology also has interesting prospects for the future in helping people suffering from dementia.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thoughts...
Technology + Jewellery...
- intergrate technology into jewellery to add value (emotional, centimental) without making it tacky.
- use technology to speak about/represent the wearer (of the jewellery) on another level. use technology but keep it personal.
- intergrate technology into jewellery to add value (emotional, centimental) without making it tacky.
- use technology to speak about/represent the wearer (of the jewellery) on another level. use technology but keep it personal.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
LED TATTOO'S!!
just some food for thought.. this is a silk skin with transistors that are to be implanted into a mouse. trippy huh!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
link to Ying Gao's blog:
http://cavaaller.blogspot.com/2007/06/blog-post_06.html
this has vidoes and images of her work in which she combines origami with electronics to create clothing that moves in a subtle and very beautiful way, i.e. the breathing dress.
Hussein Chalayan
Airborne, Autumn/Winter (2007)
London, UK with Swarowski
This fashion designer pushes the boundaries of fashion intergrating LED technology into his fashion collection.
This dress is intended to reflect our "primal feelings towards nature and the cycles of weather". Combining 15,600 LEDs and crystal, this dress displays films that correspond to the arrival of a particular season.
images from: www.talk2myshirt.com/blog/archives/245
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