Artists
Loe Feijs
Emeritus Professor
LAURENTIUS LAB. and TU/e and Fashion Tech Farm
Sittard and Eindhoven, The Netherlands
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loe-feijs-82427411/
Statement
The artist' motivation is to explore mathematical art, often coupled to innovation in fashion. This implies the use of principles like fractals and tessellations, where mathematics is essential. I like to use advanced techniques such as sublimation printing, laser cutting, laser engraving and computer embroidery. This year's art work is a wearable with a dynamic pattern coded and embedded in a tiny microcontroller. I worked in Fashion Tech Farm and TU/e in Eindhoven and in studio LAURENTIUS LAB. in Sittard.
Artworks
An Aperiodic Pied-de-Poule (Houndstooth) Tiling for e-Fashion
2.8 x 2.8 x 0.3 cm
Electronics, coding, OLED, hidden Seeeduino of 2.0x2.0x0.3cm
2024
The e-Brooch shows an aperiodic tiling which is visually like the well-known Pied-de-poule textile pattern yet is aperiodic. Although the specific tiling does not repeat, the tiles do not force aperiodicity. The aperiodicity comes from a special sequence of zeros and ones, following a 1981 paper by N.G. De Bruijn. The electronic brooch uses an Arduino of the Seeeduino type and an 96 inch OLED display of 128×64 pixels. Special thanks go to the farmers of Fashion Tech Farm and TU/e WS lab. Beam Contrechoc helped me getting started with Seeeduino and Troy Nachtigall gave me advice on the stylistic aspects of the design.