Intimacy
Artist Daan Roosegaarde, known for interactive artworks such as ‘Dune’ and ‘Sustainable Dance Floor’, expands his artistic and innovative horizon to fashion in collaboration with V2_ Lab and fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra.
photo: Lotte Stekelenburg, model: Kimora - Jimmy Model Management, make up: Joyce Kern
Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde is currently V2_’s special Artist in Residence. Daan and his Studio Roosegaarde are known for several interactive artworks, such as Dune, Liquid Space 6.0 and the Sustainable Dance Floor. During his residency at V2_, which will last from August 2009 until January 2010, he has been further expanding his artistic and innovative horizon to the world of fashion and wearable technologies, by conceiving Intimacy.
Intimacy, developed by Studio Roosegaarde and V2_Lab, is a project that straddles the world of fashion, wearables and the electronic arts, while exploring the relation between technology and intimacy in contemporary tech-society. The project consists of high-tech garments made with wireless, interactive technologies and smart foils, which can become transparent. The distance towards the garments determines their level of transparency, creating an intimate experience and a sensual play of disclosure. Roosegaarde’s ‘e-fashion’ works as a second skin that transforms the body of the wearer into a tangible interface. This interface acts as an emotional meter that measures and makes visible the level of transparency, disclosure and thus intimacy experienced by the user/wearer in social interaction.
- Transparent dress
In collaboration with Studio Roosegaarde and V2_Lab, fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra will design the first prototype dress for Intimacy. Further developments of the project will bring Intimacy on the international fashion scene. Plans for collaborations with haute couture designers are in the making, in order to create a collection of limited items that will debut on the catwalks in 2010.
A special preview of Intimacy will be held in December 2009 at Test_Lab Intimate Interfaces.
Read the interview Fashion, Transparency, Intimacy by Arie Altena with Daan Roosegaarde on his project Intimacy.
Intimacy is a project by Daan Roosegaarde, Maartje Dijkstra, V2_ Lab (Simon de Bakker, Stan Wannet, Piem Wirtz) and the team of Studio Roosegaarde (Peter de Man, João Carneiro). Intimacy model: Kimora - Jimmy Model Management, make up: Joyce Kern
