Costumes & Nightlife
Pexel Shirt is collaboration with William Ward, Nick Vermeer, and the Brooklyn Ballet. Its custom made for the dancer Mike "Supreme" Fields and is designed to interact with his pecks and arms. Mike is a popping artist and his dancing incorporates the flexing of muscle groups to create surface movement on his body. The shirt is activated by individual accelerometer sensors placed over his muscles that illuminate the LEDs through a Flora microcontroller. There are four sensors total, one on each peck and each wrist. When he flexes an individual peck it lights up. The lights on his arms are controlled by moving his wrists up/down or right/left. The entire piece is hand sewn including stitches in between individual pixel on the arm strands for optimum elasticity while still being secure. Watch the Mike in action here: Mike "Supreme" Fields. youtu.be/gL9xXdjM9tk
