Participative proposition : Sensory locative communicant costumes

These Augmented Costumes suggest participative activity, for functional interactive textiles, to capture group interaction. Proprioceptive collective experience fostering invisible relations between walking urban participants. Multi-user experience based on city occupation by multiple communicant costumes.
A proposition of an other type of social network based on ephemeral, invisible, non-traceable human data. A locative portrait of ever mobile human rhythms, a fragile re-transcription of always in transformation of their multiple interferences.

EE brings together artist Natacha Roussel with electronic engineer Michael Roy. Each of us is driven by the desire to overcome his own medium, letting us produce complimentary development in our respective fields.
We deal with multiple discreet elements focusing on their connective possibilities to conceive a larger environment at city scale. Such as low res volumetric display Pixy. Our design have been shown internationally in main festivals and galleries bringing together research and creation.

Augmented costumes capture the rhythm of the wearer’s walk and retransmit those corporal data as sonic patterns. Wearables communicate one to another through wi-fi, and the rhythmic pattern of the stroller is transformed along with the meeting of other tenants of an augmented costume, according to their own rhythm and distance. As a compositional tool relating personal rhythms and their ephemeral normally invisible connections, leading to urban mobile occupation rendered live by sonic and visual mapping.
Project is funded by Canada Art council and Quebec art Council. Co-produced by Artel91 and Futur en seine (Paris)