VIDEO CLOTHES
Dressing Light – Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
For several years, I have collaborated on art and design projects with Belgium Fashion Designer and School of the Art Institute Fashion Instructor Anke Loh.
She initially contacted me after seeing my video at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Flavors of Fashion Exhibition (see Food & Fashion). She asked me to help her catalog her student’s projects in my VJ style for a fashion show at Macy’s at the end of the semester. I designed 3 videos that played between each of the runway projects. The videos received very favorable reviews from her colleagues, students and families instigating several conversations about future collaborations.
The most interesting of those collaborations was Video
Clothes, wearable art that included LED screens
sewn into shear black evening dresses. She made the
dresses and I composed a series of animations about
Chicago’s Red line train.
As the models moved around the room, red lines and
text streamed across their bodies. The show premiered
at ONE NORTH WACKER a downtown offi ce build-
ing with a 3-story glass atrium. Our models moved
from one sculpture stand to another while large videos
projected a city montage. The show then moved to the
Chicago Cultural Center in downtown for a month long
exhibition. Routers covered the show and stories appeared
on NPR and in Chicago Magazine.