Environment Dress 2.0, 2015

We are surrounded by polluting agents and other factors that have a direct impact on our everyday lives, our mood and, ultimately, on our behaviour.
Variations in noise, temperature, atmospheric pressure, ultraviolet radiation or amounts of carbon monoxide are some of the challenges we have to face daily basis. At the end of the day, they are agents that influence our temper and our behaviour with the others.

Environment Dress is a piece of smart clothing that uses a number of sensors to measure the aggressiveness of our surrounding environs, detected environmental variables and alerting us to them. Our body’s natural sensors are unable to measure and anticipate factors such as an increase in ultraviolet radiation, dust or noise, and others.

The interface geo-locates environmental analyses and allows users to register their mood through a smartphone app. In consequence, we can establish the relationship between both variables and determine whether an increase in ultraviolet radiation can make the person who wears the dress feel better or whether and increase in noise level can make him or her feel more uncomfortable in a certain place. Finally, all these data are shown on an emotional map, pinpointing the most pleasant and unpleasant areas in a city.

ARS ELECTRONICA 2016, LINZ

MATERIA PRIMA. LABORAL CENTRO DE ARTE. SPAIN. 2015-16

Winning project of Next Things 2015 –Conducta, a joint call by LABoral Centro de Arte & Telefónica I+D.

Exhibited at:
STARTS. CEBIT. Europe's Festival for Innovation and Digitization. Hannover. Germany. 2018
Jury Selection. 20th Japan Media Arts Festival. Tokyo. Japan. 2017
Next Things-Next Starts. LABoral Centro de Arte. Gijón. Asturias. Spain. 2017-2018
Principado de Asturias. Principado del Arte. FIDMA. Gijón. Asturias. Spain. 2017
Bozar. Electronic Arts Festival 2016. Brussels. Belgium. 2016
Ars Electronica Festival 2016. PostCity, Linz. Austria. 2016
Human Factor, organized by Ars Electronica at DRIVE - Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin. Germany. 2016
Materia Prima. Curated by Gerfried Stocker. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Spain. 2015

Statement

Our work as art group brings together a collection of works and projects in which we study the interrelations and intersections that occur between machines and the human being.

We approach these issues in different kind of pieces: Interactive installations, sound interventions, multimedia pieces, etc. However, the support is not more than one channel that canalize the project itself.

A transversal and interdisciplinary research where the machine, far from a cold body, acts as an integrating factor, multiplying human capacities for equal us to other living beings or mechanical things already equipped with them.

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