A Collaborative Development Of An Artistic Responsive Fashion Collection

This article focuses on the merging of technology, media art and fashion design in a specific project, Immediate Invisible (2013). Immediate Invisible was a collaborative fashion-collection project. The result consists of six modular outfits with built-in electronics for displaying physiological responses as audio output. The idea plays with a recurring theme in fashion: revealing and concealing, which is also linked with the increasing use of sensors in contemporary everyday life.The process of making Immediate Invisible is described from the point of view of the artist and expert's collaboration, by presenting e.g. selected materials, technology and sound, and how they affected one another when merged to create the outcome: 'a hearing device for the body'. Exquisite Corpse by Friswell (2010), is used as a metaphor for the collaborative design method, where all disciplines had equal value in creating the modular and functional outcome. An examination of the tangible outcome is presented as the findings. The needs of different disciplines affected each other both as limitations and as artistic input. The project differs from other similar wearable projects with its modularity, and from conventional fashion due to the use of responsive sound as an inherent part of its aesthetics.