Silly Circuits

The Winter Quilts are three 8' x 14' electronic blankets inspired by the Canadian Winter.

Each quilt illustrates a different representation of winter and highlights some specific details about living and experiencing the natural environment in the coldest parts of the world. As seasons transform and climates change, these quilt might also one day become past souvenirs of the disappeared Montreal winters. The quilts were made using a combination of traditional methods and high-tech electronic components. Using the latest in e-textiles and soft circuits, the quilts sense the presence of people around them and their current environmental conditions and react to these through a multitude of small gestures and transformations. But they are first and foremost quilts: assembled one piece of fabric after the other and providing natural warmth and comfort when needed.

The project was created thanks to support by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Société des arts technologiques (SAT), Eski Studio and Bluesponge.
 

Skip-rope Habitat is an interactive video performance space made for cross culture encounters. Within the habitat, a cavalcade of 8-bit colour is projected, changing with each turn of the rope. The project creates a place where festival-goers can play and share skipping songs.
 

Designed to spark the flame of scientific curiosity with techno-crafty fun, Silly Circuits is an all ages artistic workshop that engages the group with fun, discovering and demystifying common electrical circuits. Using a circuit prototyping board and simple electronics, visitors may complete a 555 Timer based sound machine. Building the device, they will learn how to read a circuit diagram. NonStrument uses square-wave oscillations to sing out an audio response to our electrical potentials or how V/I = R might sound.