Christine Meindertsma

Christine Meindertsma

I found Christine Meindertsma in the IDN magazine, she was featured in the "new materials" section crocheting together jumbo over-sized wool carpets with a kind of wool sourced from Idaho. Although I wasn't able to fully understand why that particular kind of wool was worth the search, I did like the idea of extracting inspiration from new material characteristics.

Kvadrat Couds

Kvadrat Clouds

Just something that really makes me happy, and sometimes that's all that matters.

LucyandBart

LucyandBart

The collaboration between Lucy McRea and Bart Hess is described as "an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body." The LucyandBart project explores genetic manipulation of the organic body that redefines the preconceived requirements of beauty. The collection is ultimately an unrestrained exploration of the possibilities of body manipulation and what it means to the human appearance as we might possibly evolve to adapt changing circumstances. As described in their blog, "they work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low-tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement."

The possibilities of human prosthetic in pursuit of the ever-changing notions of beauty are mind-boggling. To think that the human body is always clad in shape-shifting armors, it is this demand for the alteration of appearance that science and technology is driven for innovation. The body as an interactive surface thus brings new meaning to how we perceive ourselves as human beings and where we place ourselves in science, in technology, in the future of evolution.