“HOW IS YOUR COSTUME AGENTIVE?”

This costume is designed to provoke different levels of direct real-time interaction between the performer wearing the costume and the stage elements (set, props, sound, stage lighting, incl. the costume-embedded lights), solely through the action of the performer’s movement in space and without any other mediating operator, expanding the costume’s role to undertake, performatively, changes that are traditionally managed by the technician behind the controlling console.

BIOGRAPHY

Tjaša Frumen is a costume designer from Maribor (Slovenia), actively working in film, animation, performing arts and interactive installations. In her MA thesis, completed at Aalto University, Finland, she investigated the use of wearable electronics in live performance, their functions and influences on the design of costume, the work dynamics of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the performance-making process as a whole.

Sofia Pantouvaki, PhD, is a scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University, Finland. Her credits include over 80 designs for theatre, film, opera and dance productions in Europe, as well as curatorial and exhibition design projects. 

Mia Jalerva, Master of Arts (Theatre and Drama), is a Finland-based lighting designer who has lately been working with post-humanism, sustainability, and site-sensitive performances.

Tomi Humalisto is a lighting designer, Professor of Lighting Design (UniARTS Helsinki) and researcher. His art-making relates mostly to Finnish contemporary dance, theatre and live art performances.

Emilio López is a computer science student and software developer from Rosario, Argentina. His main interests include embedded systems, system software, and algorithms.

Mario Di Francesco received a PhD degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2009. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland.