The gradual progressive development of living organisms adds up to form 'the evolutionary process'. The growth of organism is the result of factors such as natural selection. The debate about accelerating the evolutionary process has been going for a while. Are people allowed to interfere or not? Bart Hess interferes with nature in a unique way. Lending evolution a helping hand
Bart Hess
With a Hunt for Hightech Bart Hess made a collection of fake fur that touches on elements of fetishism, human instinct and new animal archetypes. With that collection he did not try to mimic real animal kingdoms but create a fantasy world of his own. The way this started was through the process of imagining fantasy animals; animals that could be genetically manipulated, part robot, part organic, how they would move in their environment and what they felt like to touch.
hong kong WIP, december 2009
Lucy has been commissioned to develop a collection of twelve garments for an exhibition in Hong Kong, April 2010 on Super Heroes and Circus. (below material explorations)
amsterdam fashion week july 2009
Chlorophyll Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.
An experimentation with color, movement, absorption and the body for Zipper and Streetlab Exhibition at the Red Bull Rooms. A joint project by Lucy McRae and Mandy Smith
Philips Design Probes Programme
www.design.philips.com
Lucy worked as a Body Architect in the Probes Programme at Philips Design for four years. Directed by Clive van Heerden the programme accelerates a vision for next generation sensitive technology. The 'Skin Probe dresses' exploreemotional sensing technology conceiving dresses that blush and shiver.
lucy and bart
LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.
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