ICA2010 Open Space Art Installations: AmbiKraf

Interactive textile byobu screens. Printed and painted textiles room divider.

Mili John Tharakan (India), Roshan Lalintha Peiris (Sri Lanka), Keio-NUS CUTE Center

AmbiKraf is an interactive Byobu (Oriental screen) for the animation of traditional static paintings on screens, creating a first-of-its-kind fabric interface which merges complex technology with the rich traditions of textile arts and crafts to bring each new meaning.

Mili John Tharakan is a Textile Artist-Researcher and a Research Fellow at the CUTE Center. Her research resides between crafts and gadgets. She conducted the first international symposium on interactive textiles in India, IT+T, in 2006. She explores democratising technology, smart materials, and new languages for Asian textile craft communities.

Roshan Lalintha Peiris is a PhD student at the Keio-NUS CUTE Center at the National University of Singapore. His main research focus is on Ubiquitous and Ambient Robotics and he is currently researching on developing various types of smart and novel materials that can be ubiquitously embedded into daily life.

Sponsors for the original project were Keio-NUS CUTE Center, National Research Foundation, Digital Media Program Office, Singapore Credits: Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, James Keng Soon The, Mixed Reality Lab /Keio-NUS CUTE Center

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Education

Tags:

• interactive
• art
• ica2010
• cloth
• textiles
• openspace
• singapore