Practically the only time I am aware of my breathe is during my yoga practice—even then if it wasn’t for the cautious reminder by my instructor I would simply forget, for minutes at a time, to breathe. Designer Synne Geirsdatter Frydenberg wants to use fashion to draw attention to one’s breathe. Pneuma is a white, embroidered dress speckled with LEDs that monitors the breathing movement of the wea

Gelsomina/2011 For the Ars Electronica festival in 2007 Hanna and Magdalena created Gelsomina, the Voice Knitting Machine: an installation based on an old mechanical knitting machine of the 1970s, that was hacked to become interactive, using voice signals. Therefore they used a microcontroller and 24 small servo motors in order to imitate a pattern card that could be directly controlled by live us

What is News Knitter? News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data. The production of knitted garments is a highly complex process which involves computer support at various steps starting with the designs of both the fabric and the shape of garments until they are ready-to-wear. In recent years, technical inn