This outdoor installation will appear in the area around Conflux HQ on September 11, 12, and 13 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Wildernets are portable mesh structures that create experiences of wilderness in public spaces.

A new twist on the trend of rediscovering nature, Wildernets, large scale crochet nets with embedded electronics, can be deployed in various settings, bringing the experiences of the forest, trees, birds and night skies to any environment. Wildernets transform the physical configuration and social dimensions of an urban space by overlaying a synthesized “natural” environment.

Wildernets recall a natural space not available to the city dweller, alluding to a rural experience in any setting; interrupting the architecture and the pedestrian to create an improvised experience in collective action, social intervention and DIY technology.

The piece was in collaboration with  Mouna Andraos and Doris Cacoilo

A portion of the piece Remember made it into the threads show early this year. The wearable fashion show hosted by Gaia. Despina Papadopoulos and Burda Style were on the panel of speakers that generated very interesting and profound conversation on the roles of opensource technology in fashion.

Remember speaks to the current human addiction to personal objects and their relationships to our bodies. The feeling of nakedness and emptiness on forgetting them and the impact of objectifying them in our everyday lives

Threads: Wearable Art Fashion Show
February 24th 2008
Jersey City Museum
Curated by Gaia

Contemplating the notion of interior and exterior spaces and what it means to be hidden and yet reveal played a large role in the making of this piece. Jaali is inspired by a Mughal Architectural element - a window frame surrounding women’s chambers -  that embodies the idea of seeing without being seen. The piece is a pattern generated through code, translated to physical space.Title: Jaali
Year: 2007
Media: Flash + Mylar

Images from the Show:

Inside/Outside

Fall 2007

Spring 2006

Capsule Collection

With these collections Angel Chang aims at going ‘beyond the forced superficial fashion & tech marketing parings, and is based on a more organic creative process. The technology itself is oftentimes concealed in the design, so the clothes can maintain their design integrity.’ Through these collaborations Angel has opened doors to true invention and the merging of two separate industries.

Designer :: Angel Chang
Date :: Fall 2006 Spring 2007
Collaboration :: Mouna Andraos & Sonali Sridhar

‘Address’ is a handmade jewelry piece designed and created by Mouna Andraos and Sonali Sridhar. When you first acquire the pendant, you select a place that you consider to be your anchor – where you were born, your home, or perhaps the place you long to be. Once the jewelry is initialized, every time you wear the piece it displays your distance from the location using a GPS component built into the pendant. As you take ‘Address’ around the world with you, it serves as a personal connection to that special place, making the world a little smaller or maybe a little bigger.

Designers :: Mouna Andraos & Sonali Sridhar
Date :: 2007

When invited to participate in a holiday bazaar where designers and artists gather to sell their pieces, we were very excited to see how far we could take our electronic craft skills and make little objects and jewelry. Our collection ranged from electronic jewelry and candles to scarves printed with photochromic inks that changed color on stepping outdoors.

Designers :: Mouna Andraos & Sonali Sridhar
Date :: December 2006

‘Remember’ uses the platform of clothing to explore the memory, patterns and relationships I have with my objects and their impact on my day to day living. My wallet, keys, phone, i-pod, camera, laptop, ID, money etc. form a strong ring of technology, identity and security around my body. ‘Remember’ is a commentary on dependencies we have developed on these little devices that hover around us.

Expanding on the definition of clothing as a necessary protective covering, exists as a way for people to reflect parts of their personality in their outward appearance, and to distinguish themselves as individuals.

Designer :: Sonali Sridhar
Collaborators :: Pollie Barden & Angela Pablo
Date :: 2006

Screen shots of the typography landscape over 4 days

A java application that parsed two text pieces randomly producing words to create a typography landscape. The words were generated by dynamically changing weather in two american cities one from the south and one from the north.

Designers :: Sonali Sridhar & Dee Harvey
Date :: 2004

Wireless Wearable Technology

This is a commentary on brand. These two skirts are wired with tricolor LED’s and a wireless radio frequency sensor. When the two people wearing the skirts come in range of each other, they exchange color information and share each others colors. Finally they dim to a white light as it is the absolute mix of all color light.

This piece was featured in the ITP Winter show 2004 and was then subsequently featured in Spring at the Chelsea Art Museum in a Studio IMC production of Art and Technology.

Designers :: Sonali Sridhar & Michal Bril
Date :: 2004

Friends Hosts & Parasites explores symbiotic relationships with technology inspired by nature, growth and survival.

The assumption is that the intimacy and the dependency inherent in a symbiotic relationship will resonate as fundamentally human. This creates a stronger and more natural bond between the user and the piece of technology, facilitating its adoption by the user. Wearable technology is an interesting field to develop these types of relationships because of the physical proximity between the wearable and the wearer, between the technology and the body.
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Designers :: Sonali Sridhar & Mouna Andraos
Date :: 2005