Part of a millinery collection combining digital data and craftsmanship. Hat representing a series of sound data converted into a seamless knitted pattern with no specific finishes. 100% cotton. Upper edge of the hat featuring various laser-cut round plastic decorations in multiple colours.
Size 400x140x400mm, 195 gr., 2018.
Cloudcuckoolanders are people with their heads constantly in "the clouds". Innocently brave, detached from reality and sincerely themselves. Today people’s heads are constantly in the internet cloud, is it possibile to find a balance between virtual self and real self? Exploring the possibility to create headpieces that represent a connecting media merging both worlds since hats often stand as a symbolic representation of identity. By building a system that translates sound data into digital knitting patterns, a wearable world was created to invite people to join in. Neither offline nor online but somewhere in between, a combination of both worlds.