[zʏnˈkʀoːn]

Das Forschungsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit dem Verschmelzen von Wahrnehmung, Selftracking, Interaktivität und Feedback. Sensorgestützte Applikationen in Kleidung geben haptische, akustische oder visuelle Signale und können über eine App kommunizieren.
Durch die Hardwarelösung können Bewegungsabläufe und die Körperhaltung getrackt, visualisiert und zur taktilen Steuerung im Bereich Ambient Assisted Living, Ausstellungskonzeption oder in der Darstellenden Kunst genutzt werden.

 An dem interdisziplinären Projekt [zʏnˈkʀoːn] arbeiten:
Frank Harnisch, Felix Groll, Sebastian Ortmann, Timon Beutel und Julia Danckwerth.​

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 Das Projekt ist Preisträger des Wettbewerbs CreativeTech Berlin 2015

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Synopsis

We operate with our hands. Helmuth Plessner described this as the eye-hand field. But what kinds of tactile perception can additionally be conceivable? What potential offers textile integrated electronics and clothing, as second skin oft he body? The project „zynchron“ create an Laboratory situation and deals with the experience of seamless transitions, Interactivity, Selftracking, Performance and Feedback. zynchron is an soft interface in field of wearable technology, which connects the user with the environment. The aim is striving for human- machine interaction encompassing our physical bodies and our senses. It may be possible to learn something new about our perception and perceptibility of the body through non- interventional study and open- ended experiments. Basic practical- use E- textiles com with sensors that track the posture and movement of the body. In this way, the project works with the human physique and explores the relations of bodily interaction during nonverbal communication and perception based on acoustic or spatial feedback. Consequently, the “user” experiences a new, augmented reality, which translates internal world and creates an impression of human sensuality. In recognition of mediatization and technologization, this project realizes the potential of fashion as a second skin and asks about one ́s self. Zynchron is an innovative soft interface, which is soft in material and also in seamless transition. It offers an tool and enables choreographers, performers, curators and other artists to experiment. They can try out their own choreographies and visions of space. On the other hand the abstract example of the laboratory situation serves to make explicit and visualize technical, invisible but omnipresent processes that surround us daily. In addition to the possibilities of an expanded perception, they can always mean a restriction of human freedom and the risk of exploitation. Here also the unobservability of human is to be defined as a form of freedom , which can be lost by a limitation within the meaning of unobservability . This may be as long as smoothly as the user select this condition itself and can trade deliberately to take advantage of such technology. But it is precisely the application areas in the context of health and safety anticipate user groups that require special protection in the ethical sense. Our aim is to raise the awareness for visible and invisible technology.

Team

 

zynchron is an collaboration of
Frank Harnisch, Felix Groll, Julia Danckwerth, Sebastian Ortmann und Timon Beutel

The laboratory Danckwerth by Julia Danckwerth researchs the meaning of conceptual fashion in the context of human­ machine­ and the body. Almost in tension between new media, velocity, technology and virtuality the perception of the body is changing. Those phanomens are questioning the requirement of designing fashion for the present and the future. 

 

 

 

fashion as a interface

Danckwerth designs conceptual textiles which recognizes fashionas a new kind of an interface. In this way of understanding,humans use fashion in the meaning of an second skin and come to know about new potentials. She is working at innovative solution how to integrate functions and electronics into textile Danckwerth is researching for contemporary strategies of designing, works mostly interdisciplinary in the field of Smart Textile and Wearable Technology.

team zynchron

Julia Danckwerth graduated with a diploma in fashion­ design at Weißensee Academy of Art and is currently Ph.D. Candidate at the Bauhaus University Weimar. She is a fellow of Bauhaus­ University scholarship for women in science and Thuringian graduate scholarship program. Felix Groll graduated with a master of interaction design at the University of Art in Berlin, he works as artistic assistant and lab­ direction at Weißensee Academy of Art, was guest lecturer at Chinese Academy of Art and Nex York University Abu Dhabi and is currently working as designer of Art+Com.   Sebastian Ortmann graduated with an diploma of Cultural Management at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam and is currently working as freelance interaction designer and consultant.   Timon Beutel worked for many years as interface­ designer, he is also an Video­Artist, Photographer and Prototyper.   The laboratory exhibited at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Subtle Technology­ Cloaked in Code Festival 2016 in Toronto and KSWE16 ­ Symposium of Goethe Institut.   zynchron was honored with the Creative Technology Award of the Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research in 2015.