Icyuma Amasaro · 2021
Cyborg Rainbow Imitako
by Dian Chen
- Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma 2021 in Amasaro
- CLIENT: Dian Chen
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 13,747
- Verification code 742D23F2B2 · Verify this award
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About Cyborg Rainbow Imitako
Ishingiye ku bafilozofe nka Rosi Braidotti na Donna Haraway, uyu mushinga ukoresha ibintu bya Cyborg na Cyber-punk mu muco rusange kugira ngo hakubakwe uru rukurikirane rw'ibishushanyo bidasanzwe cyane. Hakoreshejwe mu buryo bworoshye ibikoresho bikozwe mu nganda, ibintu biri muri uyu mushinga byubatswe rwose hamwe n'ibice bishobora guhana, bigatuma abayambara bashoboye gusimbuza ndetse no kongera gukora imitako bakoresheje ibyo bice byose by'akagari byo kubika. Iki cyegeranyo kigamije kurema umwanya abayambara bashobora kwihuriramo n'ikizere cy'ejo hazaza nyuma y'umuntu, kugira ngo bacike imyumvire gakondo y'igitsina n'umwirondoro.
About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma
Cyborg Rainbow Imitako ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma, ishimwe ry'agaciro ritangwa ku bishushanyo byiza bihuza ibyo umwuga n'inganda bikeneye ku bihangano byashushanyijwe neza. Abegukanye icyuma bagaragaza ubuhanga bukomeye, ubumenyi bwihariye, imyumvire y'inzobere n'ubushobozi bwo guhanga bw'ababikoze. Cyborg Rainbow Imitako biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifatika kandi gifite udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye icyuma gihuza uburyo bwiza bukoreshwa mu nganda kandi gifite ibiranga bya tekiniki bifite ubushobozi, bifatanye n'ubumenyi n'impano. Cyborg Rainbow Imitako yubahwa kubera gukora neza, kandi yashushanyijwe kugira ngo inoze ubuzima, ifashe gutuma isi iba nziza.
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- Unique Properties
- This project is a participatory piece which basic frames and interchangeable spare-parts are manufactured using industrial materials, like aluminum, acrylic, stainless steel. That allows the wearers to replace and even remake the jewellery using all those spare "chips and bars". In this process of self-controlled changing and overall infinity of possibilities, Dian intends to construct a context in which the wearer can, not only wear but can also participate and experience a fluid relationship between body, objects, and identity. It now a materialized imagination, it might be material experience in an expectable future.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Necklace: 270* 60* 280mm.
- Tags
- Posthuman, Cyborg, Science Fiction, Participation, Gender, Identity, Fantasy
- Production Technology
- Materials: electroplated copper, aluminum alloy, acrylic, stainless steel, rubber, latex.
- Design Challenge
- The main challenge in her project is to materialize cyborg and posthuman theories not only in the "object" that she designed but how it can create an ongoing and firsthand experience to her customers.
- Research
- Dian combined desktop research and practice as research in her project. Particularly, theories about Post-humanism and themes of science fiction and pop-culture were studied, then she embody her research enquiries in her design practice and the final product as a materialized exploration of cyborg theory that she researched.
- Inspiration
- Informed by philosophers like Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, Dian developed a deep interest in approaching gender identity issues through the concepts of the post-humanism, cyborg, cyber-punk and science fictions in pop culture to construct the super surreal series to discuss the question of fluidity of gender and identity in post-human age.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2018 in London and finished in April 2019 in London, and was exhibited in Central Saint Martins in June 2019 and AN+ ART and Design Museum in March to June 2020.
- Operation Flow
- This series of jewellery uses interchangeable parts to create imaginations and experiences of cyber-organic science fiction.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Kayuet Lau, Cyborg Rainbow, 2019.
