Artists
Loe Feijs
Emeritus Professor
LAURENTIUS LAB. and TU/e and Fashion Tech Farm
Sittard and Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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.