Danielle Wilde is an artist and design researcher at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design (Melbourne, Australia) and at the CSIRO Division of Textile and Fibre Technology in Belmont (near Geelong). She is currently undertaking a practice-based investigation into how technology might be paired with the body to poeticise experience. This research sits at the nexus of performance, fashion, fine art, critical (technology) and interaction design. Primary aims of the work include understanding how one might incite people to move and extend themselves physically; the value of a direct consideration of the body’s tendencies and affordances when creating interactive body-centric elements and systems; the value of visceral experience and full-body, or ‘beyond limb- and digit-triggered’ interaction; the idiosyncratic nature of relationships to the body and technology; and provoking, inciting or inspiring reflection about these relationships through the creation of wearable works of art, design and performance. Related projects include highly visible, extended and extending interfaces through to “invisible”, embedded and distributed systems, which allow the wearer to actuate and control changes in sound, colour, light, shape and form. Danielle was born in Wollongong Australia, and lived from 1994 to 2006 in France, Germany, the USA and the UK. She has an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a large body of work encompassing wearable interactive interfaces, performance, installation, still and moving image, design for theatre and architecture, documentary film research and interaction design. Wilde has studied with Jacques Lecoq, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby, amongst others; she has consulted and designed for the Equator IRC for Sussex and Bristol Universities, and for Media Lab Europe; she has researched and production managed award-winning documentary films in the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and engaged with space agencies and conservation and health organisations around the world. Wilde’s personal work has been shown in galleries, museums, festivals, conferences and performance venues around the world, and has been recognised with numerous awards, grants and residencies. Her experience across disciplines, cultures and languages combine with her insatiable curiosity to drive and inform her explorations. Danielle can be contacted at d at this website |
