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Sometime earlier this year I was asked by sound artist Justin Ashworth to curate a Little Songs of the Mutilated month. My month was August. Little Songs of the Mutilated is a sonic take on the surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, where each player takes their turn to create a section of a work, only …
Here’s the photo of the latest version of the gloves. Eagle eyed viewers might notice a few changes – we’re on version four. Here’s the accompanying tech video and demonstration!
The last two weeks have included many adventures in 3D modelling. After the crashy mess that was MatterControl, Cloud pointed me to TinkerCad, a free, simple, browser-based CAD program. If you can visualise your desired shape out of simple blocks, this is the free-n’-easy application for you. What I need, for the time being, is …
I told myself a few months ago between starting this journey and remaking the pattern that those multi-coloured gloves would be the ones that got me through this year. Oh, how naïve I was! The previous posts gloves did allow me to test the pattern. They were designed with shorter flex sensors than I had …
Over the weekend, I redrafted my glove pattern. Previously, I had used the generic glove pattern that I found on the original Mi.Mu dev-blog as the base for my old gloves. For the next iterations, I wanted to have them fit my hands without any weird finger lengths (on me) and to try a few …
In 2018, I designed and built a set of data-gloves with my collaborator, Cloud Unknowing. Our first prototype was built using flexible sensors that I manufactured from an Instructables tutorial. They were relatively robust and, though the masking tape sealing filled me with apprehension, they worked. Of course, data-gloves are nothing new. There is the Nintendo PowerGlove, the Mi.Mu and other commercially available gloves, ‘The Hands’ by Michel Waisvitz, Laetitia Sonami’s ‘Lady Glove’, and Elena Jessop’s ‘VAMP’.
In many ways Nimuè I was the beginning of my doctoral journey as it was the end of the previous iteration of glove design. In rehearsals, the gloves were refusing to connect to my laptop via Bluetooth, and in my frustration, I vowed that it was time for the gloves to be dismantled and put to their better use as the starting point for the next generation. One that wouldn’t use Bluetooth…
This blog will document the research, design, and thinking behind my doctoral thesis at the University of Melbourne. I will link out to relevant sites and media.