24,000 LED Dress! Technology meets Fashion in the Galaxy Dress

 Attention fashionistas and technological junkies; finally something that utilize the fantastic power of LED technology and the desire for women to express themselves through fashion. This dress is on permanent display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago Uses the same electricity as two household light bulbs and can run continuously for about a half hour. 

Watch a video of what this dress can do!

Shozo Shimamoto : Gutai Performance Recreated in Italy

A recreation of a Gutai performance by Shozu Shimamoto. He creates a painting by throwing bottles of paint. Gutai art from Japan was highly influenced by the works of Jackson Pollack. Paintings are considered the result or remnant of the performance that entails the artist coming into contact with the medium or materials used.

 Another member of the Gutai group was female artist Atsuko Tanaka who created and wore a dress made entirely of hand painted light bulbs. She risked electrocution every time she wore it.

E.V. Day - Artist to Watch

E.V. Day's work is highly inspiring to me.. check her out!  http://www.evday.net/

I like to think of what I do as deconstruction-positive, and a completed piece as usually realized thorough some transformation 

of a sexual or feminized trope into a statement of power and independence. – E.V. Day, P.S. 1 Newspaper, Fall 2006

http://www.evday.net/