7. The Static Cinema: A New Dimension in Film Projection
With his innovative “Dynamic Cinema” installation, filmmaker and multimedia artist Takeshi Yamamoto has stretched the bounds of films. By including stationary energy into the very fabric of the projection, this creative endeavour reinterpretation of the conventional movie-watching experience. Yamamoto’s arrangement consists in a specially created screen composed of electrostatically charged particles suspended in a transparent media. The stationary charges in the film when it is projected onto this screen enable the particles to align in patterns that improve the image, therefore producing a three-dimensional illusion without the need for special glasses. Furthermore, real-time manipulation of the stationary charges lets interactive components in the video come through. Viewers blurring the barrier between audience and artwork can create their own stationary charges by movement or touch, so influencing the on-screen action. The Static Cinema questions our ideas of what films can be as well as presents a fresh approach to enjoy films. Yamamoto has developed a quite immersive and interactive movie experience that captivates spectators on several sensory levels by including the invisible powers of static electricity.
8. Electrostatic Couture: Fashion Charged with Creativity
With her fascinating “Electrostatic Couture” collection, fashion designer Olivia Chen has rocked the world of high couture. Using static electricity, this creative range of clothes and accessories generates textiles that actually comes alive with movement. Chen’s designs feature especially treated fabrics and materials that can hold and transfer static charges, therefore producing dresses that shimmer and shift as the wearer moves or accessories that softly repel one another to produce ever-changing shapes. Embedded with thousands of microscopic, electrostatically charged fibres that react to the wearer’s motions, the magnificent evening gown at the centre of the collection creates an amazing show of rippling patterns over the cloth. Chen’s work questions our ideas of how clothes might interact with our bodies and the surroundings in addition to stretching the bounds of fashion design. One striking illustration of how scientific ideas could be used to produce wearable art that is both beautiful and provocative is the Electrostatic Couture line.
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