27 research outputs found
Hybrid Encounters in the arts and sciences. A dialogue
No full textIn an inspiring conversation four experts in cross-disciplinary collaborations (Bergit Arends, Ken Arnold, Berit Greinke, Jens Hauser) give insights into the experiences that they have accumulated in the course of their work in cultural organisations, museums, universities and various research bodies. They discuss the pitfalls and opportunities that such exchanges provide, including the challenges of collaboration and the surprises that always occur when different fields and their representatives are brought together
Networking concert halls, musicians, and interactive textiles: Interwoven Sound Spaces
No full textInterwoven Sound Spaces is an interdisciplinary project which brought together telematic music performance, interactive textiles, interaction design, and artistic research. A team of researchers collaborated with two professional contemporary music ensembles based in Berlin, Germany, and Piteå, Sweden, and four composers, with the aim of creating a telematic distributed concert taking place simultaneously in two concert halls and online. Central to the project was the development of interactive textiles capable of sensing the musicians’ movements while playing acoustic instruments, and generating data the composers used in their works. Musicians, instruments, textiles, sounds, halls, and data formed a network of entities and agencies that was reconfigured for each piece, showing how networked music practice enables distinctive musicking techniques. We describe each part of the project and report on a research interview conducted with one of the composers for the purpose of analysing the creative approaches she adopted for composing her piece.Validerad;2024;Nivå 2;2024-05-21 (joosat);Full text license: CC BY;Funder: Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation); Programme for Digital Interactions [grant number DIV.0725]; Einstein Center Digital Future;</p
Experimental Fabrication and Characterisation of Textile Metamaterial Structures for Microwave Applications
No full textPhDThis thesis presents an investigation of fabrication technologies and electromagnetic
characterisation of textile metamaterials in the microwave frequency range.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the work bridges textile design practice and electromagnetic
engineering. The particular ambition was to explore a number of surface techniques
prevalent in the textile design field, and map their suitability for the construction of
metatextiles for microwave operation.
Two different classes of metatextiles, all-dielectric and dielectric with electrically
conductive patterns, were examined.
First, five structures of all-dielectric textiles and papers are reported; three textiles with
graded embroidered and screen printed patterns, and two papers embellished with
regular and irregular laser cut patterns. Permittivities for these materials were measured
in a purpose-built test chamber and shown to be similar to permittivity ranges exhibited
by solid discrete metamaterial cells previously reported in the scientific literature.
Importantly these metatextiles were realised within one textile surface and one
fabrication process, bypassing the need to assemble large numbers of isotropic material
cells. This reveals the potential for rapid and low-cost manufacture of graded textile
materials to produce anisotropic ground plane cloaks.
Secondly, three studies are presented that examine the use of electrically conductive
patterned textile materials in the design of metatextiles which exhibit negative
refractive index over a narrow frequency band. A range of e-textile (electronic textile)
fabrication technologies were explored to assess their suitability for prototyping splitring
and wire arrays, resonating in a narrow region between 3 - 10 GHz. Designs
utilised a repeated unit cell pattern on a two-dimensional textile surface and were
subsequently pleated into the required three-dimensional structure. A small negative
refractive index was achieved for an embroidered prototype at
4.9 GHz, and two ‘printed and plated’ prototypes at, 7.5 GHz and 9.5 GHz respectively.
In summary the thesis demonstrates a set of guidelines for the fabrication of textile
metamaterials for microwave frequencies, derived through a practice-led and
interdisciplinary method based on material experimentation.Media and Arts Technology programme,
EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre EP/G03723X/1
Penguin
No full textThe form of the Penguin textile artifact arises from an experiment exploring a three-layer weave-and-cut pleat structure (developed by Holly McQuillan: McQuillan, 2020), but transposing it to a closed volume incorporating stiff and shrinking yarns. The woven geometry is a simple one, and it is the interaction of the material and structure that gives rise to complex three-dimensional form. Penguin arises from a 'form-finding' design process (Baerlecken & Wright, 2014): one that allows space for the natural tendencies of the materials within a structure to produce three-dimensional form.Exhibited in Drafts:3. Curators Jane Tepe, Faseeh Saleem, Vidmina Stasiulyte, Berit Greinke.</p
Light as a Material of E-Textile Composites
No full textThis paper presents initial material studies of the project Personal Wearable Lightspace. The aim of the described work is to explore how light can be considered as an inherent property of a composite material, consisting of textiles, electronics, and light. The properties of interactive materials are diverse, combining expression in inactive states with changing appearance during active phases. A series of small design explorations into e-textile composites has been done, with the aim to understand better the characteristics we achieve by varying the construction of their components. We present a series of material studies and designs for composites. In the discussion, characteristics and material choices are compared. Finally, the conclusion gives an overview on design parameters for e-textile composites regarding the function and aesthetics, including the textileness of its interaction design or the involvement of bodily data to create a somaesthetic experience
e-Textile Reader
No full textThe e-Textile Reader is a teaching resource zine developed for the seminar 'Crafting Textile Data' at the Institute of Experimental Fashion and Textile Design. It is aimed at design students without prior experience in computational electronic textiles
Measuring Pleated Knitted Sensors
No full textThis paper presents preliminary results from a study of pleated electronic textile (e-textile) sensors, focusing on prototyping and measuring electrical resistance of three knitted sensors. This work is part of a larger research project, investigating the interaction between body and e-textiles with a three-dimensional structure for creative performance applications. First, electrical properties of the pleated textile sensors were determined. Sensors were measured in a purpose-built low-cost recording device, which was set up to record electrical resistance, taken from the fabric while it was folded and unfolded. Different modes of connecting the samples to the microcontroller were also tested. Each sensor was tested three times with three different stretch lengths. The results show that one of the most significant factors to use knitted pleats as an input is the combination of yarns combined with the tension of the knitting machine
Twist-box
No full textThe Twist-box was designed to develop and showcase the suture structure at its fold-lines. This weave structure enables two wovenlayers to unfold and refold flat. The design process leading to this artifact included tests exploring variations of the suture structure, before a paper model of the box was produced, and a number of woven iterations were produced. Each iteration was examined for flaws, and thus informed the next iteration, which crept closer to the ideal of the paper model. Thus the design process for the Twist-box was a hylomorphic one (Ingold, 2010). Its complex weave structures lead to a simple geometric form, and each development was a narrowing of possibility.Exhibited in Drafts:3. Curators Jane Tepe, Faseeh Saleem, Vidmina Stasiulyte, Berit Greinke.</p
Interwoven Sound Spaces Documentary
No full textThis is a documentary shot and edited by Tim Nowitzki about the Interwoven Sound Spaces project (2022).
Interwoven Sound Spaces is an interdisciplinary project which brought bringing together telematic music performance, interactive textiles, interaction design, and artistic research. A team of researchers collaborated with two professional contemporary music ensembles based in Berlin, Germany, and Piteå, Sweden, and four composers, with the aim of creating a telematic distributed concert taking place simultaneously in two concert halls and online. Central to the project was the development of interactive textiles capable of sensing the musicians’ movements while playing acoustic instruments, and generating data the composers used in their works. Musicians, instruments, textiles, sounds, halls, and data formed a network of entities and agencies that was is reconfigured for each piece, showing how networked music practice enables distinctive musicking techniques
