Second Skin: High-Resolution Art
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Photographs by Elinor Carucci
These close-up studies of human skin feature the rituals of beauty in clinical detail: nylon stockings, lipstick, tweezers.
> Lips and Hair, 1998
> Nails, 2001
> Nipple Hair, 1996
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SenseWear® Patch Continuous Body Monitor
Wearable medical device, 2004
Designer: BodyMedia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Description: The SenseWear Patch is a wearable body monitor that applies to the body like a simple Band-Aid. It collects, processes and stores important heart rate and contextual data about the wearer. This data is uploadedto a computer for viewing by the wearer or a health care professional. The patch employs a skin-sensitive, multi-sensor, conductive textile that can be replaced from wearer to wearer.
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Corrulamp-1
Lamp, 2004
Designer: Adam Yarinsky and Stephen Cassell, Architecture Research Office, New York City
Materials: Corrugated cardboard, lighting element
Description: The lamp is made from layers of laser-cut cardboard, layered together to create a volume. Subtle variations in the thickness and angle of the cutting create a complex surface of varying opacity. ARO is known for applying advanced technology to simple materials to create complex surfaces.
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High Tension
Garment, 2004
Designers: Xavier Moulin and Izumi Kohama, Ixi, Okinawa, Japan
Description: This garment holds the body into a semi-reclining position with a system of straps. The garment becomes a piece of mobile furniture. It can also position the body for reading and other activities, becoming a kind of wearable furniture and system of soft suspension.
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Interior #5
Photograph, C-print, 2000
Photographers: Aziz + Cucher, New York City
Description: Aziz + Cucher create digitally modified photographs of objects and spaces covered in skin. Here, an architectural interior has become a living surface. The exhibition also will include a video project that will create a virtual space within the gallery.
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Fibre Reactive
Garment, 2004
Artist: Donna Franklin, Perth, Australia
Materials: Living funghi on fabric
Manufactured by Donna Franklin during Masters of Arts at Edith Cowan University and artist residency at SymbioticA : The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratories, The University of Western Australia.
Video directed by Donna Franklin; filmed and edited by Sharon Custers.
Description: This dress is encrusted with living, growing funghi. According to the artits, the project aims to challenge and seduce the viewer and redefine tradional relationships between cloth and the body. This work aims to raise questions about the commodification of living entities and the production of biological art.
Special thanks to SymbioticA: The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratories, The University of Western Australia. Supervisors: Nicola Kaye, Oron Catts, and Rinkse Carr. Thanks also to Gary Cass and Professor Siva, The Natural and Agricultural Sciences Student Laboratories, UWA, and The School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University.
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Blanket
Blanket with lighting component, 2000
Designer: Ditte Hammerstroem, Copenhagen
Materials: Wool, silk, cotton, light bulbs
Description:
An ordinary object of domestic comfort becomes a responsive organism. The edge of the blanket is bordered with tiny light bulbs, providing illumination for reading in bed or in an armchair. The border lights up when touched. The outerlayer of the blanket is wool and can be removed and washed.
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Hang Out
Room object, 2001
Designer: Ditte Hammerstroem, Copenhagen
Materials: Felt, wood
Description: Hangout is conceived as an extra room in the room for shoes and coats.
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Objects for Walls
Installation, 2005-6
Designer: Erika Hanson, New York City
Manufacturer: Weidmann
Materials: Maplex® wall panels (softwood cellulose fibers), paint, LED's
Description: Maplex®, a material traditionally used in industrial applications, is made from compressed, unbleached tree fibers. Designer Erika Hanson has been working with the manufacturer of Maplex ® to develop new products and applications for this incredibly strong, lightweight, renewable material.
Some grades of Maplex® contain a high percentage of post-industrial recycled fiber, and all grades are 100% recyclable. For Second Skin, designer Erika Hanson will develop a system of wall panels with slits through which light will emanate.
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Portable Light: Luminous Reading Mat
Renewable Illumination Infrastructure, 2005
Designer: Sheila Kennedy and KVA Design Team, Boston
Materials: Photovoltaic textile with solid state lighting
Description:
Portable Light is an interdisciplinary research, design, and engineering project to create a portable, de-centralized first infrastructure to serve the large number of people--more than 2 billion--who do not have access to electric light or power. Textile-integrated flexible photovoltaics harvest solar energy by day, and provide electrical power and generate light by night. The Portable Light provides a versatile textile medium that can be woven, owned, carried, and used when it's needed, facilitating the adoption and stewardship of contemporary technology in traditional cultures. The system is lightweight, easily rolled or compressed, and readily shipped. The textile infrastructure is a fully autonomous, off -the-grid light "engine" that can be manufactured at a global scale for education, household economic development, and community-based health care and cultural practices.
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Kleiburg Block Competition
Architectural model, 2000
Designer: Greg Lynn FORM, Los Angeles
Materials: Styrene, aluminum mesh, acrylic
Description: This transformation of a large-scale residential housing block in the Bijlmermeer neighborhood in Amsterdam marks the first use of escalators in social housing. The new circulation is supported by a series of over 150 uniquely shaped vertical steel trusses that are clad in a semi-transparent stainless steel fabric. Through these vegetally shaped trusses the new escalators and circulation are hung on the existing concrete structure.
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Airswitch AZ
Lighting, 2005
Form Design: Shin Azumi (1965)
Airswitch Technology: Mathmos Design Studio
Materials: Mouth-blown acid-etched glass, plastic base, 40W bulb
Manufacturer: Mathmos
Description:
The light responds to the position of your hand; move horizontally to switch the design on and off, and move your hand vertically to make the light brighter or dimmer (Air Switch Technology).
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Neptunic C Suit
Protective garment, 2005
Designer: Jeremiah Sullivan, San Diego, California
Materials: Steel, polycarbonate, nylon webbing
Description: This high-tech diving suit is created to resist shark attacks; it is designed for researchers and nature enthusiasts who desire to swim with sharks.
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Desktop Landscape
Vessel, 1999
Designer: Karim Rashid, New York City
Materials: Vinyl-dipped PVC
Description: These flexible containers by Karim Rashid are made by dipping the mold twice into the liquid materials, once fore each color. The result of this simple process is soft vessels that shift color from top to bottom or inside to outside.
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Top Secret
Lighting, 2002
Designer: Hector Serrano, Valencia
Materials: Nylon net and acetate printed strips
Manufacturer: Metalarte, Barcelona
Description: This lamp is made from acetate that has been passed through a shreading machine. The acetate strips are held together with a clear nylon net. The result is a semi-transparent cocoon of irregularly massed material.
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Superpatata
Lighting, 2000
Designer: Hector Serrano, Valencia
Materials: Latex, salt, compact fluorescent light
Description: This soft, touchable lamp can be used as a pillow, antistress device, or an object to warm your bed, as well as for direct or ambient illumination. It consists of a latex bladder filled with salt that has a fluorescent bulb at its core. The lamps can be stacked on top of each other, mounding together like nesting creatures.
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Flexible Robot Skin
Artificial skin
Designer: Takao Someya, Tokyo
Description: Someya’s Lab set out to make a flexible, pressure-sensitive robot skin that is also inexpensive to produce. Potential applications for this technology range from patient monitoring in health care settings, to monitoring the alertness of drivers through their car seats, to security systems in buildings.
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Fastskin FSII Bodyskin
High-performance garment
Designer: Speedo
Materials: Polyester, lycra
Description: The surface of this garment simulates the ridged skin of a shark, enhancing the performance of competitive swimmers.
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WooOrb
Lighting, 2000
Designer: Don Carr, Manlius, New York
Materials: 3D mesh textile and lighting hardware
Description: The shade of Don Carr’s WooOrb is made from molded 3D fabric. The lamp can rest on a table or hang from a ceiling, singly or in groups.
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