Aeolia explores concepts of our bodily engagement with the land and ideas of space and place. In combining feedback from remote land based sensors below, upon and above the earth with biological data from the individual wearers of the body pieces, the work will draw attention to different forms of engagement with the world.

multihead embroidery :: aesthetic development by Tina Downes & Karen Harrigan

Aeolia is supported by an R&D grant from the alt-w fund and will be featured at Cryptic Nights’ 10th anniversary event for New Media Scotland on 2nd July 2009 at the CCA in Glasgow.

The project is building interdisciplinary expertise in combining traditional textile techniques with emerging technologies and materials with a network of researchers in Technical Textiles at Nottingham Trent University.

custom stretch sensors by Martha Glazzard

l - r :: embroidery (Tina Downes), knit (Martha Glazzard), weave (Nigel Marshall) all with (fit) Karen Harrigan

see the working sensors here