EJTECH Textile Exhibition Opening Event

DUNG DKAR CLOAK Interactive installation, 2023 Touch and explore the textile in order to generate a unique soundscape, shaped by the gestures and delicate tactile wandering throughout the woven interface. Dung Dkar Cloak is a soft interface for intuitive musical interactions. It is a fractal tapestry augmented in order to create an intimate explorative material experience. Textiles as the metaphor that strings together the macrocosm and microcosm, the interwoven reflection of interpersonal relationships, the linking of vertices and edges to create a network, our second skin and the next interface for human-computer interactions. Through the evolutions of the cosmos, we are the story of matter being told to itself. Growth and pattern are innate in matter. Without a designer, matter continuously shapes itself into the infinite fractal tapestry of our universe - every pebble, every mountain, every life. Dung Dkar Cloak is developed within the Innovation Center of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary (MOME-IK). This work is part of the ongoing research on new augmented materials, specifically soft interfaces as an intuitive, non-intrusive platform between digital environment and the physical world. Artists Judit Eszter Kárpáti, PhD and Esteban de la Torre are an interdisciplinary duo under the name EJTECH, and academic researchers at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. They are working with hyperphysical interfaces and programmable matter as media to investigate sensorial and conceptual relationships between subject and object, aiming to rediscover networks of emerging structures and immanent causality within realist metamaterialism.