Baroesque Barometric Skirt
The Baroesque Barometric Skirt visualises data in the form of four independent RGB LED strips from four sensors, three of them are environmental and are: ambient temperature, pressure and altitude, the forth is a temperature sensor that sits on the inside of the skirt and pulls in the wearer’s body temperature. My motivation for creating the skirt is that I am interested in how we can display our physiological data alongside that of the environment or ‘bigger picture’ of elements that we are surrounded by. The skirt changes visually as the wearer moves around environments and also as the body reacts to its present situation. This garment-device starts a conversation around the connections between the environmental and physiological data of the wearer. The Baroesque Barometric skirt contributes a new way of sensing and presenting environmental and physiological data together. For the soundtrack I used Anniversary Waltz (Les Jeaux Interdits Scenario) by Stealing Orchestra (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0) and it was filmed at ISWC at Motif in Seattle, September 2014. Many thanks to Jonny Farringdon for being my cameraman :-)