“Peau d’Âne” by Valérie LaMontagne

Title:

Peau d’Âne

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):

Valérie LaMontagne

Symposium:

ISEA2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Creation Year:

2010

Medium:

Dresses

Size:

w = 200 cm

Artist Statement:

Peau d’Âne is a series of three weather-networked dresses based on the Charles Perrault fairy tale in which a princess asks for dresses made of the sun, moon and sky.

Temperature, UV, solar radiation, wind speed & velocity, humidity and rain fall data is collected and sent to the dresses wirelessly, where micro-controllers relay info to internal circuitry. The sun dress has 128 LEDs which can light up depending on sun data, while the moon dress has 14 colour-modulating flowers to represent each phase of the moon cycle. The sky dress is imbued with 14 vibrating air pockets.