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Urban Armor #8: The Public Speaker

The Public Speaker, a dress covered in speakers, has undergone many iterations. Initially a tweet reader intended as a physical manifestation of the digital public square it has also functioned as a mobile karaoke self-accompaniment and most recently it was used to traced the boundaries of a local radio transmission playing a recording of the wearer's internal scream.

The Public Speaker is the eighth piece in Urban Armor, a series of speculative and absurd wearable electronics which investigate technological and personal boundaries in public space.

2017-2020
speaker, amplifiers, LEDs, fabric, modified radio
documented with support from Wave Farm and Textile Arts Center

high res images available upon request