“Peau d’Âne” by Valérie LaMontagne
Title:
- Peau d’Âne
Artist(s) and People Involved:
- Valérie LaMontagne
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- 3lectromode
Exhibiting Artist(s):
Symposium:
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.