NOW WEARING: Deep Blue Interactive Aquarium.

Interactive artwork isn't a medium that I often post here, simply because it doesn't translate as easily into something wearable.  However, Dominic Harris's Deep Blue Interactive Aquarium is both participatory and visually engaging, a perfect harmony of beauty and technology.

Harris is a London-based artist and designer whose "chosen palette of materials is lighting interaction design, and electronics."

His training as an architect has affected the function and scale of his creative projects, which are carried out by Cinimod Studio, founded by Harris in 2007.

Beautiful in its latent state, this piece comes alive when the viewer engages with the screen.  Aquarium is reminiscent of my favorite interactive artwork, Daniel Rozin's Sketch Mirror.  Whereas Rozin's piece literally mirrors the viewer, Aquarium mimics the viewer's movements and actions, framing them as though their presence gives the work greater meaning.

This outfit in its entirety (including accessories) cost under $100!

Dress ($21.99) and Jacket ($14.99): L'Amour by Nanette Lepore via JCP

Snakeskin Mini Bag: Lauren Merkin Essex (via sample sale)

Pumps: Prabal Gurung for Target

Cuff: Met Museum gift shop

Outfit photos by Hannah Kauffman, Aquarium images from dominicharris.com.

Deep Blue Interactive Aquarium (with commentary by Dominic Harris) from Cinimod Studio on Vimeo.

Les Robes Géographiques

I've fallen in love with the paper series Les Robes Géographiques by London-based artist Elisabeth Lecourt.  Though these pieces are not meant to be worn, I feel the need for something similar in my closet and on my wall. 

"The vulnerability of the human being, the fragility of the bodies exposed by Lecourt proposes a painful beauty as well, as much by the emotional thing of the topic like by its own necessity to understand our body and what there is within us."

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