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Body Graffitiis a performance art wearable technology that uses the illusion of persistence of vision (POV) to create ephemeral graffiti via body movement. As dancers (in this particular performance— break dancers) perform head spins, windmills and flares, messages programmed into the custom designed LED POV system are displayed.

I caught up with Younghui Kim, a New York City-based artist, who developed the project at WCU Digital Media Public Art Research Center at Hongik U. Body Graffiti was a collaboration with Dan Mikesell, and the world champion B-boy crew, Last For One, 2010.

Enjoy the interview below!

When did you become interested in performance wearables?

My first wearable project was a costume (a future media jacket) for a performance, ‘AfroFuturistic’ at The Kitchen, New York, 2003. I could say that I’ve always been interested in performance wearables from the moment I started to create fashion items integrated with technology.

Dancers, more particularly modern & experimental dancers, have been early adopters of wearable technology. What do you see as the attraction for dancers to integrate wearable technology into their costumes and performance?

I find that wearable itself can be an expressive media platform. At the same time, worn by a performer during performance, it elevates expressibility of body language as creating a stronger media platform combining two forms of media that have been so close to art and technology – wearable and performance. I’m sure modern & experimental dancers are attracted to wearable technology for the same reason that I am attracted to as one of wearable technology artists.

What inspired you to create Body Graffiti?

It was three years ago when I coincidently met a producer of a B-boy musical within a month I landed in Seoul to teach interactive media. Performers like B-boys are originated from street art just like graffiti, therefore I considered them as public art performers and I imagined them dancing in the public park at dusk without having any stage or screen behind them. They express in their fierce body language and I started with an idea of enhancing their expressibility using dancing motion. Three years later, ‘Body Graffiti’ became reality when I got the WCU research grant for the digital media public art research and found a great b-boy crew, ‘Last for One’ who were willing to collaborate with this wearable research.

What are the next phases for the project?

Body Graffiti is still in progress as it is being upgraded with more defined custom circuit board design with higher LED pixels to express more detailed graffiti graphics and fragmented sewable PCBs to be conducted with flexible electronic materials for better wearability.

Actually, I’ve already begun to explore better solutions based on the first prototype. I’m redesigning the Body Graffiti PCB to be modular in multiple parts and to be easily integrated in the clothing. Also, the design of the Body Graffiti wearables would be improved to be more fashionable in Hip-Hop style. I also like to create different design and version of Body Graffiti for difference kind of experimental dance performances.

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What are the current hurdles you need to overcome?

I would like to work closer with dancers but, we had limited time to test with dancers before the performance. Also, finding a local choreographer who is passionate about wearable technology performance has been a challenge here in Seoul. Perhaps because I’m a newbie here or perhaps, wearable technology hasn’t been introduced as a form of media art here in Korea yet. Instead, people tend to relate with wearable technology as functional product applications.

Technically, I need to find a better solution to integrate smaller, flatter, lighter battery that has higher electrical power to handle custom printed circuit board to control 64 outputs. I am near figuring out some sensible power solution for the next version of Body Graffiti. I’m waiting for the paper thin battery products that I can get my hands on. Also, generally hand sewing conductive thread takes longer hours compared to soldering electronic parts with wires. Last winter, I had to use Arduino nano or mini instead of the flat Arduino Lily Pad because I didn’t have enough time to finish multiple wearable pieces before the HCI performance with b-boys. I would like to re-complete one set of electronic components using Arduino Lily Pad in a new version of Body Graffiti, seeking softer technical solution for the wearables as that seems to be my on-going hurdle with wearable technology projects.

Thank you for the interview. I’m looking forward to seeing future iterations.

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Comment by christopher roelann on August 11, 2010 at 6:13am Nice body graffiti looks amazing, graffiti can be made on many ways. But i like the normal graffiti most.

Christopher

Developed by Ricardo Nascimento and Jader Scalzaretto, “parangonet 1.0: sonic dimension” is a pair of interactive sonic capes that create and trigger sound loops in the environment. Each garment is able to trigger and modify a different sound input, creating a collaborative sonic atmosphere when performed together.

The piece is inspired by “Parangolé” from the brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and aims to recreate the artwork using technology as a new poetic layer.

Created from a patchwork of patterns from various countries, the first cape, titled “be legendary”, represents the mixture of different cultures. It is embedded with an accelerometer that detects movement and wirelessly communicates the data to a computer to trigger sound loops.

The second cape, “lebenserfahrung” (“life experience”) is made from synthetic materials and decorated with tiny mirrors. It aesthetically references a vision of the future from the 60s. One of the decorative jewels is a microphone that records the ambient sounds of the environment every 15 seconds, adding new sound loops to the production.

Watch the video below to witness the interaction. (The latter half of the video contains a sample performance).

The ancient Chinese art of Wushu Kung Fu has gone high-tech with swords crafted using LED lights. Using the P.O.V. technique, Mortiz Waldemeyer developed these illuminated swords that create beautiful lighting effects in the hands of Wushu artists.

The performance took place at the world premiere of the Maybach 62 as part of the Beijing Motor Show 2010.

More photos here.

The LED Kimono is one of the more sophisticated performance-oriented wearable technologies to date. The project is designed and fabricated by composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka.

Embroidered with 444 individually controlled LED’s, the kimono sleeve functions as a low-resolution textile video screen and expressive interface.

In its current version, it responds predominately to sound and movement of the wearer. Realtime video image pixelization can also be interpreted to the LEDS on the LED KIMONO.

Looking at the process photos, the project used typical LEDs and a combination of e-textile sewing techniques and traditional wiring.

I did find this fantastic photo (above) comparing the size of SMD LED sequins to a grain of rice.

Future iterations of the project entail embedding the kimono with smarter behaviors. The kimono will have the ability to listen, make informed decisions, improvise and respond to its environment.

From the artist:
In this way, a musician can perform with this kimono, and the kimono will respond by displaying changing and evolving patterns, designs and images. Thus, the kimono is a kind of “instrument” that, while not generating music itself, will respond to music, sound and motion of people walking in the vicinity.

The LED KIMONO will also be presented at Siggraph in Yokohama, Japan 2009.

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Moritz Waldemeyer does it again! He’s the go-to guy for the music industry to create magical, illuminated outfits and now — instruments.

I was loving Rihanna’s fierce laser outfit for the the 2009 AMA’s, but this beautiful white furry Gibson Les Paul guitar illuminated with LEDs and lasers steals the show. How fun are these guitars!

The best part yet: The lasers turn the guitars into musical paint brushes that create real time graphics on a giant projection.

This project was created for OKGO. Waldemeyer previously had created these lovely LED-infused jackets that spelled out the bands name.

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26 April 12 World Intellectual Property Day. Abide by professional ethics in order to better enhance the level of innovation, the cloth merchants of the China Textile City launched the Initiative: reject piracy, support the original.

Launched an initiative of the president of the Printing Industry Association of China Textile City, Shaoxing County Sanhe Trade Co., Ltd., chairman Zhang is in Keqiao business for over 10 years, the textile market of the 1990s, is in the initial stages of development cloth merchants, the desire of innovation, but lack of awareness of intellectual property protection, the pattern piracy is common. Years of business experience make him feel, to technological innovation, brand development based on independent intellectual property rights, to build the core competitiveness of enterprises is the most important source.

In recent years, the China Textile City, vigorously promote the Mood for copyright protection, have achieved remarkable results, the market for the annual registration pattern copyright in 4500, accounting for nearly half of the registration number of the province. The same time, the China Textile City to lead the pattern copyright and creative industries to promote transformation and upgrading of the county’s textile industry, the pattern design to become the a major component of of Keqiao modern service industry.

However, in the Textile City market, individual business households still exist to steal other people tricks copyright and malicious registration of off-site popular pattern of the phenomenon. The existence of these phenomena, to some extent, discourage operators on the pattern of innovation, harm the interests of the pattern of copyright owners.

To take advantage of the 12 World Intellectual Property Day, Zhang is their own personal experience, tell the majority of businesses and innovation, in order to establish a brand in a highly competitive market, to be respected. The same time, he represented the Printing Industry Association, refused to piracy, support the original commitment, and never copied the pattern copyright plagiarizing malicious registration of off-site popular pattern, not to reproduce and distribute to others pattern of copyright works, not photography, graphics, network communication The use of others synchronized copyright works.