. brief (italian): http://www.box.net/shared/b9xzg2o76g
. presentation slides: http://www.box.net/shared/ku36yrel8g
. site plan: http://www.box.net/shared/el5dc7gjl8
.:. Possibles (non-exhaustive) research directions (not to be intended as separate fields, rather as orienting paths which have many contact zones among them):
. Robots aesthetics & Otaku culture
. Fashionable prosthetics
. Prosthetics as body and performance amplifiers (exoskeletons and alike)
. Skins & nanosuits
. Sci-fi: from tin-cans to Transformers
. Vehicles as mobility enhancers
. Armors as articulated systems
. Fashion as a system of environmental & cultural modulators: Iris Van Herpen, Issey Myiake
. Bio-machines: biological systems as sophisticated self-organizing machines
.:. References (in constant update)
. Iris Van Herpen & Daniel Widrig:
Iris Van Herpen & Daniel Widrig - Escapism collection
http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/04/escapism-by-daniel-widrig-iris-van-herpen-and-mgx-by-materialise/
. Fashioning Technology
http://www.fashioningtech.com/
. Nanobots & skin effects:
Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45PgMJMqLY
Philips electronic tattoo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM1VuN5Iouc
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/the-illustrated-man-how-led-tattoos-could-change-the-face-of-humanity/
Fabrican
http://www.fabricanltd.com/
. Bio-machines:
1st Avenue Machine - Sixes Last
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkMHsN8SoI
1st Avenue Mahchine - Adidas Modular man (even if it thrives on an old idea of machine it still has elements of interest)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WWjB-gUUoQ
. Franz Steiner
http://franz.cgsociety.org/gallery/499156/
http://franz.cgsociety.org/gallery/499118/
. Vitaly Bulgarov:
http://www.bulgarov.com/
http://www.bulgarov.com/alien.html
. Cultural Hibridity:
http://www.metapedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cultural_Hybridity_Discussion_Fall_2009%3A_Week_8
(with a reference to Takashi Murakami)
. robots with a mind of their own:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvpEfAPXn4&feature=fvw
. TRON legacy lightcycle design:
http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/tron-lightcycle-design-daniel-simon/
. armors of late XIV & XV century:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/2337597498/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/2337599000/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/2337598214/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/2337595096/in/photostream/
. Posthumanism, cyborgs+interconnected bodies:
http://archimorph.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/posthumanism-cyborgs-interconnected-bodies/
