Piem Wirtz

Project Manager at V2_Lab

Piem Wirtz

Piem Wirtz is projectmanager at V2_Lab. Her main interest is in wearable technology projects, where she is not only involved from a management perspective but also in the hands-on production of artworks.

Piem holds a Msc in Industrial Design Engineering and is participating as a dancer in the contemporary dance group Dattah. Together with Melissa Coleman she initiated the E-Textile Workspace, a platform for discussion about wearable technology and smart textiles. Besides hosting the monthly Workspaces, Piem is coaching artists in V2_'s residency program and is supervising the team of hardware developers.

 

Other Interests

Product design, performance and improvisation.

Personal website: www.piemwirtz.com

Skype: v2_piem  My status

Phone: +31 10 206 7273

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Workshop Wearable Technology
Workshop Wearable Technology
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May 2009
17
May 2009

Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (aka KOBAKANT) gave a two-day workshop on DIY wearable technology. The outcome of the workshop was demonstrated during Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology.

Summer Sessions ISEA2011
Summer Sessions ISEA2011
17
Sep 2011

In this special edition of V2_'s Test_Lab program at ISEA2011, a selection of the outcome of the Summer Sessions 2011 will be presented. As it is custom to V2_'s Test_Lab, the projects will be demonstrated live and the audience will be invited to ...

Works
Intimacy Black
Intimacy Black

Intimacy Black (2010) by Anouk Wipprecht and Daan Roosegaarde is the second dress of the Intimacy-series.

Intimacy White
Intimacy White

'Intimacy White' (2009) is a fashion project by Daan Roosegaarde, V2_Lab and Maartje Dijkstra about the relation between intimacy and technology.

Documents
Intimacy
Intimacy

Artist Daan Roosegaarde expands his artistic and innovative horizon to fashion in collaboration with V2_ Lab and fashion designers Maartje Dijkstra & Anouk Wipprecht.

Media Vintage
Media Vintage

With "Media Vintage", Melissa Coleman writes/sews a memorial to obsolete media. Information stored on digital carriers is vulnerable and transient. In this respect, physical things, like books, are worth more. How might textiles work as a storage ...

Tweet Bubble Series
Tweet Bubble Series

The Tweet Bubble Series consists of four wearable speech bubble prototypes developed in collaboration between artist Aram Bartholl and V2_Lab. All four prototypes are based on the idea that a Twitter user shows his/her latest Twitter post in the ...

Pseudomorphs
Pseudomorphs

Pseudomorphs are tech-couture pieces which are transforming into fluid displays. During her artist in residency, Anouk Wipprecht's aim is to create illusions around the body.

Love Hate Punch
Love Hate Punch

Stefan Gross and Stella Boess are the inventors of the Love Hate Punch, a punching bag that reacts with sound and light to impacts. In 2010, they asked V2_Lab to redesign the hardware and software so that the punching bag could respond to the blows ...

SHAREWEAR
SHAREWEAR

SHAREWEAR is an investigative fashion and technology collaboration involving Di Mainstone and V2_.

Labs for Fashionable Technology
Labs for Fashionable Technology

Sabine Seymour and Piem Wirtz discuss the field of wearable technology. The talk took place on May 20th at the V2_lab.

Massaging, puppeteering and the development of wearables
Massaging, puppeteering and the development of wearables

An interview with Hannah Perner Wilson and Mika Satomi of Kobakant, about the development of their work, by Piem Wirtz and Arie Altena.

Others
Embroidering Conductive Thread
Embroidering Conductive Thread

For Aram's residency I did an experiment to find out if an embroidery machine can handle conductive thread. This test was performed at Waag Society Fablab, Amsterdam.

Protei Presentation at MARIN
Protei Presentation at MARIN

On Friday January 20th Piem Wirtz and Alvaro Takiuti presented Protei at the Natural Propulsion Seminar of the Dutch Maritime Research Institute (MARIN).

Performative Wearables
Performative Wearables

Since wearable technology pieces are often designed to be interactive, and in most cases are presented to an audience in some sort of way, we thought it was interesting to do a thought experiment: can every ‘wearable’ be considered a ...

Premsela Forum: Evolving Excellence
Premsela Forum: Evolving Excellence

Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion has invited V2_Lab’s Piem Wirtz to speak at the Premsela Forum: "Evolving Excellence" on Friday April 23 at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

From Lab to Showbiz!
From Lab to Showbiz!

Millions all over the world witnessed the spectacular show of the Black Eyed Peas during the halftime entertainment of the Super Bowl 2011. The costume Fergie was wearing is designed by Anouk Wipprecht and 'Stylist of the Stars' B. Akerlund.

Beta Textiles
Beta Textiles

Beta Textiles is the notion that textiles do not only consist of their material shape, but are also defined by some sort of code like knitting or weaving patterns. And if you consider textiles as code, could Open Source philosophy apply to the ...

DMY Berlin Report
DMY Berlin Report

June 10 2010, V2_ participated at the Maker Lab during the DMY Festival. Meg Grant, Melissa Coleman, Anja Hertenberger, Joachim Rotteveel and Piem Wirtz represented the E-Textile Workspace in Berlin.

Wearable Spaces
Wearable Spaces

The E-Textile Workspace of November 30th 2010 was organized around the subject of "Wearable Spaces". The schedule for the evening consisted of a discussion, a presentation of Nicky Assmann’s final exam project and time to discuss the ...

V2_ staff members guest lecturers at Crosslab
V2_ staff members guest lecturers at Crosslab

Piem Wirtz and Simon de Bakker will be guest lecturers at the Willem de Kooning Academie from 22 to 26 March 2010.

Transformational Garments
Transformational Garments

The 21st of October 2010, the E-Textile group chose 'transformational garments' as starting point for discussion. Where the topic can be interpreted very literally, in the sense of transforming the shape of a wearable piece, the discussion evolved ...

Summer Camp on Master Craftsmanship
Summer Camp on Master Craftsmanship

A selected group of textile designers, DIY hackers and E-Textile experts have been invited by The Swedish School of Textiles to discuss the role of craft in wearable technology. This 4-day hands-on workshop explored the topic of ‘Future E-Textiles ...

Wearable Sound Experiment
Wearable Sound Experiment

May 16 and 17, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media held a 2-day workshop on wearable technology lead by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson aka Kobakant.

Wearable Technology as an Interface with Virtual Environments
Wearable Technology as an Interface with Virtual Environments

The 4th E-Textile Workspace took place on 24 February 2010. We were joined by two students from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. Aduen Darriba and Anouk Wipprecht are working on a graduation project together that integrates wearable ...

Lab Initiates E-Textile Workspace
Lab Initiates E-Textile Workspace

E-Textile Workspaces aim to offer an informal setting for both critical discussion around&about wearables, and for hands-on work on individual projects. It aims to open a space where practice is intertwined with knowledge sharing, feedback exchange ...

Why Wearable Technology Inspires Us
Why Wearable Technology Inspires Us

Third E-Textile Workspace, January 21 2010, focused on the question of why we make wearables.

Don't Code Just Stitch
Don't Code Just Stitch

The Lab is currently working on the first series of modular patches. The basic creative philosophy behind the patches is driven by a simple mantra: “Don’t Code Just Stitch”. We don’t focus on highly skilled engineers but offer an ...

DMY Festival Berlin Invites E-Textile Workspace
DMY Festival Berlin Invites E-Textile Workspace

DMY International Design Festival Berlin, 09-13 June 2010, has invited the E-Textile team to give a hands-on workshop at their Maker Lab space.

How to Make Textiles Move
How to Make Textiles Move

In the 5th E-Textile Workspace we focused on the question how to make textiles move. Previously, some ad hoc experimentation with Flexinol shape memory alloy was done, but we all agreed it would be interesting to see what we could come up with ...

Smart Fabrics Conference 2009
Smart Fabrics Conference 2009

10, 11 and 12th of March, Simon de Bakker and Piem Wirtz visited the 5th annual Smart Fabrics Conference in Rome. Three days packed with presentations about wearable technology.

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