“Topographie Digitale” is an interactive installation created with DataPaulette. This landscape uses electrically functionalized and pleated textiles as sensitive surfaces reacting to touch to interact with a video-projected digital clone of this scenery.
Topographie Digitale
The project illustrates the hybridization between scientific discovery and traditional craftsmanship as a “créole” technique—a fundamental subject of research for our collective. In this work, we collaborated with pleating specialist Maison Lognon to augment textiles both with new electrical functionality (via in-situ polymerization) and with physical affordances introduced by pleated patterns. The result is a material of mixed heritage, both technological and traditional, prefiguring an emerging sustainable craft.
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Exhibitions
- Intangibles Losses (TEI 2021) — Art Space 5020, Salzburg, Austria, Feb 2021
- Ars Electronica 2020 – In Kepler’s Garden, Festival for Art, Technology & Society, JKU Campus, Linz, Sept 2020
- De toutes façons… Design graphique et textile, Le Signe, Centre National du Graphisme, Chaumont, France, Oct 2019 – Mar 2020
Awards
Nomination au STARTS Prize 2020 (initiative de la Commission Européenne sous Horizon 2020, soutenant la collaboration artistes-scientifiques pour des technologies créatives et durables).
Publications
- De Bie M., & Briot A. (2021). Le textile électronique, un savoir-faire créole. In MàJ Design, environnements techniques & pratiques exploratoires (p. 29-32). Cité du design/Esadse.
- Briot A., De Bie M., Giordani A., Denise L., Honnet C. (2021). Topographie Digitale. In TEI ’21: ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Salzburg, Austria. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3444641
- Topographie Digitale in CyberArts 2020 Prix Ars Electronica. STARTS Prize ’20 Ed. Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker. ISBN 978-3-7757-4761-5, p. 252.