GROPING AND HUGGING
some more touch and hug related wearables:
UPDATE: an image of Joey\’s intimate memory skirt - she showed this at Banff. the documentation for this project can be found at the XS Labs website.
at Banff, Joey Berzowska showed a skirt that illuminated small embedded LEDs when certain panels were groped. the LEDs fade in relation to how long the panel was touched, representing a history of how often recently a person was groped.
and here at ISEA, Kelly Dobson exhibited a garment which inflates when “hugged” through actual physical contact or via mobile phone.
both projects have some commonalities with other projects i’ve blogged here before, such as alison lewis‘ closer, and francesca rosella and rikako sakai’s F+R hugs, and despina’s hug jackets.