"Digital disturbances presents the work of seven designers and creative teams whose work investigates the impact of digital concepts and tools on the design and representation of fashion. Digital technology has advanced from a fringe preoccupation into an integrated and mainstream component of how fashion is conceived, produced, distributed and interpreted. This sustained engagement, while comprehensively affecting how fashion works practically, has also given rise to new ideas about how the physical world might be understood and represented, leading to experimentation in aesthetics and form.
Many ventures undertaken with new technologies in fashion reflect utopian values about the ability of science and technology to revolutionise our wardrobes and lives, implicitly for the better. However, a growing body of work raises questions about the current potential, limitations and desirability of integrating digital phenomena and content into the fabric of the material world. This work reveals the strange and uneven process of translation across the virtual and material platforms - often using both digital and analogue techniques - in which information is potentially lost, gained and distorted. The effects can be traced across the surfaces of garments, through the realisation of new silhouettes, in the remixing of images and bodies in photography and film, and into the nuances of identity projected into social and commercialised spaces."
Yesterday I travelled down to London to visit this exhibition held in the London College of Fashion. It is free to visit and is open to the public between 11/09/2015 - 12/12/15.
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