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Urban Armor #2: The Personal Space Dress

A dress with two proximity sensors and a motorized armature that expands when someone comes too close to the wearer.

The Personal Space Dress is the second piece in Urban Armor, a series of absurd wearable technology pieces investigating the relationship between nonsense and machines in search of a liminal space between the functional and the symbolic, a space in which the boundaries between reality and fiction begin to slip. The pieces are documented in partially-staged, partially-spontaneous performance scenarios. Tutorials for many of the pieces in this series are hosted at urbanarmor.org

2014
fabric, acrylic, umbrella parts, motors, ultrasonic sensors
high res images available upon request