In my research to find “kinetic fabrics,” I had no idea what I would find because I had never researched just this topic specifically. I ended up on a Pinterest board that someone had put together of “art, technology, kinetic, design” and found so many cool projects. One that caught my eye was Lesia Trubat’s electronic ballet shoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concept of her project was to collect “traces” of a ballet dancer’s movements and represent them as visual sensations. Using a Lilypad Arduino microcontroller, she focused on recording the pressures and actions that occurred through contact with the floor. The movements are translated into a visual experience that dancers can refer to afterwards in order to interpret their choreography in a different medium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find this project quite beautiful, because as a dancer, I have never thought to pay attention to the whole picture my feet might paint as I dance. It’s always about the individual steps, or the sets of steps, landing correctly but this project created a new medium of art without adding any additional work for the artist, just the wearable technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n