11th November – 15th November
Schools – 10:00- 13:00
Independent kidZ – 15:30 -18:30 –
Gratis verksted for barn/unge i alderen 8-18 år
Email to piksel19(at)piksel(dot)no to book your school or your kids.

Worn on the body as “wearables” or displayed in our everyday environment, those active or reactive materials let us rethink our needs, possibilities and dreams.

Either by developing playful tactile interfaces or customizing garments, we will learn about basic notions of electricity, innovative materials, textile techniques and interaction design in order to invite kids and teenagers to imagine and create for themselves using e-textiles.

Electrotextile workshop is a practical workshop to make, remix and intervene your accessories and garments through the manufacture of soft and flexible electronic circuits.

The participants will approach to the concept of “wearable technologies” and to the basic notions of electronics. To this end, circuits will be prototyped and creative projects will be developed by mixing textiles and materials capable of conducting electricity.

Kids will learn to make resistances and soft switches with cloth, felt, thread for lighting or sound applications and they can customize your clothes or accessories with LEDs!

Electronic textiles or E-textiles are the encounter of flexible materials, soft circuitry and electronic functionality.

On demand and depending on participant’s ages the artist will prepare materials for:

* the introduction to soft sensors (pushbuttons, stretchy or squeeshy materials) and basic circuitry

* needle techniques with conductive treads (sewing, embroidery)

* soldering

* the creation of playful tilt sensors

* a more advanced exploration on activated matters with a power heat circuit

Pauline Vierne, France

As a design researcher specialized in smart materials interfaces and electronic textiles in particular she applied and developed her practical skills during her involvement at the Design Research Lab, Berlin University of the Arts and at DFKI, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence. During five years she developed functional prototypes within research projects that dealt mostly with the role of interactive textiles, sensing and actuating for body-worn purposes, as well as interior design applications for connected home environments.

As a nomadic artist in residency since 2018, working and living in various remote places, from the TAM camp in Taiwanese mountains, the French Contemporary Art Center les Moulins de Paillard, to CHT hackbase on Lanzarote and the post-communist utopian city of Victoria in Romania, she weaves a network of alternative local initiatives. Performing research outside of traditional institutions and, insofar context-related, being sometimes confronted to the lack of basic infrastructures (access to water or absence of wifi) has refocused her usual rather “hands-on” material approach, towards attempting to share holistic understanding of mass anthropogenic impact such as the ecocide.

As a lecturer, she believes e-textiles to be an exemplary medium for transmission as, being a cross-disciplinary field by definition, they have proven to break access barriers both by opening up the black boxes of technology, and allowing for concerns on future technological developments to be discussed.