I have been seeking for a while a fashion designer or maker, someone with appreciation of similar aesthetics as I do therefore the result could become a common effort rather than an order.

After discovering the conductive rubber I realised that it could be efficiently combined with the latex. I approached a friend of a friend, latex maker and designer Ella Powell @exlatex.

Ella Powell have been working with creating latex clothes and sheeting for the past two years. She studied a short course in latex making at Central Saint Martins over the summer 2022. Currently she is studying a master’s degree in computer science and AI.

After initial meeting we have drafted some ideas about creating latex based organic-like futuristic looking sensors which will efficiently collect data from the bending knees and elbows. Below you can see AI generated idea of the direction in which the piece might be evolving.

Other artists which are joining the team are @Elixir31012. Elixir31012 is a multimedia artist duo formed by digital artist Jing Xu @abadteeth and sound artist Jiyun Xia @xiaji2tsunagi2 in 2023. Both graduated from the Royal College of Art with a degree in Fashion in 2023. Elixir31012 creates an otherworldly landscape of non-linear time through digital animation, experimental music making, wearable technology, and performance. Cyborg study, myth, ritual, and feminist narratives are intertwined in their work. Elixir31012 takes its name from the Chinese Taoist vocabulary for “elixir”. 3 represent “Synthesis”, 10 for the “Sacred”, and 12 for the “Eternal Return”. Their sound art performance at the the event Chronic Illness XX very intrigued me and we started talking. The idea to collaborate emerged very soon and organically based on similar interests in creative technology, cyborg art and sound art. Elixir31012 proposed that they will make a headpiece which would carry the motion sensor for the Sonokinesis performance.

Declan Agrippa @hiyahelix, student of the second year of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication, is going to create a sound design using the virtual wavetable synthesiser Serum.

Below you can see the work in progress sketches of the sensor headpiece in Zbrush.

Multi-disciplinary and kinaesthetic artist Ona Tzar @ona.tzar is joining the team as a performer. Her creative input is being very important for developing the whole system because we would like to have the garments as ‘user friendly’ as possible. We have been actively discussing materials, positions of sensors, shape of garments and the headpiece trying to find the right balance between ‘experimentalist aesthetics’ whilst keeping the usability of all pieces for performance comfortable, functional and reliable.