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Bare Conductive

Textile Keyboard, 2011

Bare Conductive

Textile Keyboard, 2011

Bare Conductive

LED Bulb, 2009

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

MAK Fashion Lab #02

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Carol Christian Poell

Transparent Headfunnel, 2001

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

Lucy McRae

Swallowable Perfume, 2011

Lucy McRae

Swallowable Perfume, 2011

Sonja Bäumel

Metabodies, 2013

Michael Burton

Future Farm, 2007

Philips Design

Electric Skin, 2007

Till Sunday, 16.3.

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska

Wed, 30.10.2013–Sun, 16.03.2014

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

MAK Fashion Lab #02
Exhibition

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive

in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska

Wed, 30.10.2013–Sun, 16.03.2014
MAK DESIGN SPACE

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

As recently as ten years ago, epidermal electronics seemed unimaginable—but today, electronic systems that adhere to the surface of the skin are being tested for use in various applications, for example by medical research labs all over the world. The MAK FASHION Lab exhibition SCIENTIFIC SKIN provides a look at pioneering design developments that use new technologies to expand the cognitive characteristics of human skin and of textiles, the so-called second skin.

Textile as Skin
The London based creative laboratory Bare Conductive was invited to team up with artist Fabio Antinori and designer Alicja Pytlewska in order to develop a large-scale metaphor for the idea of breathing life into a textile skin. At the core of the interactive tapestries featured in their installation, Contours, are capacitive sensors applied to the objects’ substrates using conductive paint; these sensors react to the presence of a
person in their immediate vicinity and can track their movement. A constantly modulated ambient soundscape, reminiscent of a medical research environment, serves as an acoustic feedback loop that alludes to the relation-ship between science and the body. The abstract geometric ornamentation that connects the tapestries’ individual sensors to form giant ones is inspired by Wiener Werkstätte designs from the MAK Collection.

Skin as Textile
This highly complex computational and scientific exploration is juxtaposed with the artisanal material experiments of avant-garde fashion designer Carol Christian Poell, whose Special Archive is part of the MAK Collection. Poell’s lookbooks and photographs of clothing and acces-sories made of animal skins that have been transparently tanned or colored with bull’s blood, all displayed on the exhibition’s upper level at the MAK DESIGN SPACE, serve to demonstrate his continuous artistic research and analysis pertaining to the “skin” theme.

Artistic and Scientific Explorations
Connecting these two poles are both hypothetical and critical video works that provide an insight into the present scientific and artistic examination of SCIENTIFIC SKIN. In doing so, they also serve to demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary research for the development of intelligent materials, in which the promising scientific branch of synthetic biology is playing an ever-greater role. And as an expansion of this exhibition at the MAK DESIGN SPACE, an ongoing discussion of current research and development on epidermal electronics is being held on the blog fashion.MAK.at.

Guest Curator Sabine Seymour
Curator Thomas Geisler, Curator, MAK Design Collection
Scientific Advisor Heidemarie Caltik, Curator, MAK Design-Info-Pool Collection and Special Archive Design Pioneers, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection

Videos

SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska >>
Artistic Explorations >>
Scientific Concepts >>
Contours >>

Educational Program

Wed, 30.10.2013, 5 p.m.
Artist/Curator talk and experience happening with Matt Johnson (Bare Conductive), Fabio Antinori, Alicja Pytlewska, Sabine Seymour
(held in English)

Thu, 21.11.2013, 5 p.m.
Curator-guided tour with Thomas Geisler, Curator, MAK Design Collection (held in German)

departure/MAK d>lab.07

As part of the collaborative program design> new strategies of the MAK and departure – The Creative Agency of the City of Vienna, the workshop The Body as Actuator with the artists and guest curator will take place on 30 October 2013.
Information and registration at: d-lab@departure.at





Media

Bare Conductive
Textile Keyboard, 2011
Bare Conductive
Textile Keyboard, 2011
Bare Conductive
LED Bulb, 2009
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
MAK Fashion Lab #02
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska, Contours (detail), 2013 MAK Columned Main Hall
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska, Contours, 2013 MAK Columned Main Hall
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska, Contours (detail), 2013
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska In the front: Josef Hoffmann, Liqueur Glasses from the Series Black Broncit Var. A and Black Broncit Var. B, 1911/12
Carol Christian Poell
Transparent Headfunnel, 2001
Pork skin, transparent
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska From left to right: Carol Christian Poell, Dispossessed, 2004; Traditional Escape, 2001 With object photos by Stefan Zeisler
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska In the front: Carol Christian Poell, A Peculiar Feminity, 2001 With object photos by Stefan Zeisler
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2013
SCIENTIFIC SKIN feat. Bare Conductive
in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska
Lucy McRae
Swallowable Perfume, 2011
Video still
Lucy McRae
Swallowable Perfume, 2011
Video still
Sonja Bäumel
Metabodies, 2013
Michael Burton
Future Farm, 2007
Nanotech foot-growths
Philips Design
Electric Skin, 2007
Video clip

Exhibitions

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