Those Who Affected Me

(2015)

Those Who Affected Me is an interactive light emitting textile art installation. Suspended in mid air, over 1,5 meters tall, and 2,5 meter diameter, the four winged structure invites the audience to gently touch the textile and reacts by sending colorful ripples up and down the intricate fabric.

The custom designed jacquard textile is using optical fibers connected to about 500 individually programmable color LEDs, connected to a microcomputer. Thin, electrically conducting copper threads are woven in to create touch sensitive areas inside the fabric. The 11 meters of fabric are mounted with steel rods around a steel cylinder. The sculpture is exhibited in an small room with tilted mirror walls, creating a distorted universe where the sculpture is multiplied in infinity.

The project started off in winter 2015 as an abstract self portrait, and as a way for Malin to process her battle with cancer.

"People around me are affecting me all the time, both mentally, physically and emotionally. They are creating me, if it weren't for them I would not be here today. This is a tribute to them. It's a reflection of how people affects me as touch affects the installation."

 

Past exhibitions:

  • Nationalmuseum Design, Stockholm, September 2nd 2016 - January 15th 2017
  • Gothenburg Museum of Art, December 5th 2015 - February 21st 2016

Hi-Resolution Photographs:

Gallery - Those who affected me

Those Who Affected Me on Flickr

Technology and media:

  • Custom optical fibre textile, woven on jacquard loom at Ekelund Weavers, Horred, Sweden.
  • Teensy 3.1 microcontroller.
  • WS2812 addressable RGB LED pixels.
  • SLS 3D-printed optical fibre connectors.
  • Adafruit Capacitive touch sensor
  • Conductive yarn
  • Shrinking yarn
  • Cotton and polyester yarn
  • Steel

 

The project was funded by Innovativ Kultur - www.innovativkultur.se