I’m looking for a robotics person – metal fabrication, servo robotics, control systems. Also planning to work with muscle wire which might be the same person or an additional one.
I’m in the process of building a robotic dress cinema interface for an installation. A speculative commentary on our relationship with technology on the body : A robotic Dress with integrated projection mapping video scrims is rigged in a room. It mirrors the movement of a viewer as if they are wearing it, collecting motion data to assemble a customized 5 min. horror movie across its cinemascope screens.
The Dress has a servo driven stick figure skeleton controlled by a kinect to mirror a viewer’s body movement. The movement is then scaled from servo driven robotics and rigging to subtler robotic movements. The dress torso, panniers and pleats are made from 3d printed died gray plastic rigged with muscle wire – which creates a subtle creeping motion. In addition a wearable multiple based on the 3d printed and muscle wire driven tech of the installation will be created.
Considered a pioneer of interactive cinema, Dove produces unique and highly imaginative embodied hybrids of film, installation art and experimental theater. In her work, performers and participants interact with an unfolding narrative, using interface technologies such as motion sensing and laser harp to “perform” on-screen avatars.
Creative Team: Dana Karwas : http://danakarwas.com, Executive Producer: Co-founder at BLDG BLOK, Instructor of Integrated Digital Media at NYU Poly and Media Director at Maya Lin Studio; Rene Steinke: Script and text development: Novelist, finalist for 2005 National Book award for Holy Skirts; Luke DuBois: http://lukedubois.com, Max and Jitter software design: Director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Engineer, Product Manager at Cycling ’74; Francis Bitonti, of Francis Bitonti studios, http://www.francisbitonti.com, known for the 3d printed dress for Dita Von Teese, joins us to work on soft robotics and innovative 3d printing design. http://www.societeperrier.com/blog/3d-fashion-designers-who-will-help-you-step-into-the-future/; Leif Mangelson: http://vfl.sva.edu/about/, Robotics construction and controller electronics: Director of the Visible Futures Lab, School of Visual Arts; Karen Young: www.karenyoungcostume.com, Costume design and construction: Costume Designer for Film and Theater; Paul Geluso: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Paul_Geluso, Spatialized Sound Design: Master Teacher of Music Technology, Steinhardt School of Music, NYU; Jen Wood : Assistant: Graduate
Contact: Toni Dove <tonidove@gmail.com>