Simon de BakkerSoftware/Hardware Developer at V2_
Simon de Bakker (1979) is working as a software and hardware engineer at the V2_lab and is exploring the fields of embedded technologies, smart textiles and soft-sensor design. He holds a BSc in Interaction Design and an MA in Interactive Multi-Media at the School for the Arts Utrecht. Website: http://www.josos.org Phone: +31 10 2067273 Simon de Bakker Document Actions28
Nov 2003
A workshop that examines the tools available for the creation of interactive and non-linear media, on the examples of three open source multimedia software applications: V2_Jam, Jahshaka and StreamStudio. Intimacy Black (2010) by Anouk Wipprecht and Daan Roosegaarde is the second dress of the Intimacy-series. "East by West" is a networked telepresence environment by Johannes Birringer, Orm Finnendhal, and Sher Doruff. It was part of the DEAF03 exhibition. 'Intimacy White' (2009) is a fashion project by Daan Roosegaarde, V2_Lab and Maartje Dijkstra about the relation between intimacy and technology. Artist Daan Roosegaarde expands his artistic and innovative horizon to fashion in collaboration with V2_ Lab and fashion designers Maartje Dijkstra & Anouk Wipprecht. This project by Dutch artist duo Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat in collaboration with V2_Lab, explores the emotional and social tension between disclosure and invisibility, and between privacy and trust, in our changing social eco-system. 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 ... Leisure activities have become one of the major economic forces, a force that penetrates different levels in our lives. Simultaneously with leisure activities a control-economy became a force that gives direction to the way we live. As with leisure ... 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 ... Arie Altena interviews Di Mainstone, Stock and Simon de Bakker about the development of 'Sharewear'. Action Plant explores a speculative proposal to empower threatened species of plants with the ability to flee from their aggressors. 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. 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 is an investigative fashion and technology collaboration involving Di Mainstone and V2_. 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 ... From the beginning of Herman Asselberghs’s project 'Dear Steve', a video letter to Steve Jobs in which a MacBook Pro is taken apart, the artist wanted to make an installation out of the laptop’s components. He called it 'P.S.': A Postscript to ... For a transparent touchpad in textile we needed to create circuit boards that are thin, small, easy to mount on a textile substrate and more or less flexible. To create such a circuit board we started to experiment with cutting copper foil on the ... Piem Wirtz and Simon de Bakker will be guest lecturers at the Willem de Kooning Academie from 22 to 26 March 2010. Over the past few months, V2_Lab’s Simon de Bakker has developed software for Nicola Unger’s audio performance First Person Plural, an intriguing theatrical experience that will be performed on December 3 and 4 at the Rotterdamse Schouwburg. 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 ... 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 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. 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 ... 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. |
