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SYNTHETIC FLESH VEIL      
Project selected by RESHAPE Competition to be exhibited at:

Fashion Digital Night during the Alta Moda event organized by  Fondazione Mondo Digitale in collaboration with  Altamoda

Fashion show -25th of January 2019, 21:00 pm
Prati Bus District, Viale Angelico, Rome( IT).
Exhibition - 25th-27thof January 2019
Fashion Hub 4.0 Rome ( IT), curated by FMD

Progetto Moda: La Grande Belleza Italiana during the Milano Fashion Week at
Spazio solferino 40 showrooms
, Milano, Italy. ( 21st -23rd February 2019)

Team: Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz
Students: Hannah Deegan and Zara Tamton


The veil is traditionally a garment worn by women.  In the East, the hijab, sheila, and niqab are declarations of religious devotion and modesty.  In Western marriages, the bride commonly wears a veil for reasons that at the core are again, religious and modest.  Many of the cultures the Western world has “banned” wear the veil because it carries a complicated and sacred meaning. The simplicity of the veil’s physical form is what inspired our wearable technology. The Synthetic Flesh Veil project uses nascent technologies as a step towards merging humans and machines, as a means of evolving humanity beyond discrimination based on external appearances. The project proposes to rethink the veil as a wearable architecture that blurs the visibility of skin and the form of the body, while simultaneously expressing and revealing the invisible, intangible phenomena of the body that we all have in common: a heartbeat.  The Synthetic Flesh Veil, designed to be worn by all humans, distorts the reading our silhouette by masking and revealing areas of the body that are primarily visible, the face, neck, head, and shoulders, through the design of a porous, translucent veil.  Combining the use of synthetic materials, biosensors, actuation, and computation, the architecture of the veil utilizes the input of biometrics, the user’s heartbeat, to generate the output of an atmosphere, the light that visualizes the frequency of the cardiac cycle. As a material, the silicone, emulates the haptic qualities and characteristics of human flesh, while the light extends beyond the body and becomes an ephemeral constituent of the surrounding environment.
   
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