Ying Gao is a fashion designer who challenges assumptions about clothing through conceptual collections and projects, combining technology and design.
(Berlin-Nagoya)
A transformative dress/ scarf inspired by urban life.
Embedded sensors react to light, moving sections of the garment, as if it were breathing.
http://yinggao.ca/interactifs/living-pod/
Another inspiration is The Unseen, a design collective who fuse chemistry and textiles to create fabrics that interact with their surroundings and reveal unseen processes/ occurrences.
(Air)
Using an innovatively developed wind reactive ink, this garment reveals the air currents around the body.
http://seetheunseen.co.uk/archive/I am keen to explore interactive/ intelligent materials myself in this project, as I want to be able to express the transitional, temporary and illuminative nature of shadow and light.
One idea is to look at incorporating reflective yarns and fibre optics into my knitting.
I have also been recommend a dye called Lumi Inkodye which is light sensitive, developing under UV light. It gives a similar effect to photograms, using shadows to create a pattern/ mark. I have trialled this and although varied the results are really interesting and I am keen to experiment with it on different knitted surfaces.
(Inkodye on fine calico)
I think it could be a very effective way of translating some of the delicate marks and subtleties in my sketchbook.
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