Marking the culmination of its project as a CCBT artist fellow, Synflux’s final exhibition is Algorithmic Couture Alliance: Digital and Fashion Dialogues. The exhibition is accompanied by talks and a workshop featuring specialists from various fields, exploring questions about the future of digital fashion that will unfold across both the real and the virtual.
New forms of creativity are now emerging from the meeting of rapidly evolving digital technology with fashion design.
Synflux’s exhibition presents a vision of the future of digital fashion that unfolds across the real and the virtual.
As a speculative design laboratory striving to create the next generation of fashion, Synflux engages in R&D and social implementation in ways that harness digital technology. During its time as a CCBT artist fellow, it has been researching the diversity of digital fashion that occurs not only in virtual spaces but also across physical experiences and manufacturing. This now culminates in an exhibition and website, Algorithmic Couture Alliance.
The exhibition investigates hybrid approaches to fashion design involving digital technology. Through videos of dialogues with Tokyo-based, internationally active designers and brands viewable in the venue and online, it showcases the diverse potential of digital fashion. Exhibits also include a utilization of Algorithmic Couture, a design system developed by Synflux that reduces material waste during clothing manufacturing. The exhibition is accompanied by an opening talk at SUPER DOMMUNE as well as “What is the Digital Me and Smooth Fashion Design?,” a series of lectures and workshop with researchers and members of the public.
Comprising varied research and dialogue, the exhibition brings into relief a multifaceted discussion about clothing design and manufacturing systems, our consumption, and our physicality in relation to digital fashion. These reveal the future paths and current challenges for digital technology and fashion design.
As a CCBT artist fellow, Synflux has undertaken wide-ranging research on the more environmentally friendly systems for fashion design made possible by new technology. Through the exhibition and related events, it aims to construct a creative alliance of torchbearers for realizing the future of generative fashion.
○Three Aspects of the Exhibition
1. Dialogue: Research through conversations with practitioners
The exhibition showcases research into digital fashion know-how and technology. It features discussions with Tokyo-based, internationally active fashion designers and brand directors through videos in the venue and online content. Visitors can explore the potential for fashion design practices working with AI, and of using digital technology to design and manufacture things.
2. Project: Fashion practices utilizing digital technology
The exhibition features collaborations that make use of Synflux’s design system Algorithmic Couture. Visitors can see examples from the TYPE-IX Synflux project done in collaboration with A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE and from SYN-GRID, a collaboration with GOLDWIN.
3. Context: Research into the contexts and future of digital fashion
The exhibition explains the historical contexts for digital fashion that became apparent over the course of the project, and explores those technological and creative possibilities. The exhibition also includes a manifesto looking ahead to the future of fashion that digital technology will usher in. The changes likely to occur as human creativity intersects with new technology are introduced through easy-to-understand diagrams and keywords.
○Related Events
◯Opening Event SUPER DOMMUNE “Algorithmic Couture Alliance: Digital and Fashion Dialogues“
Date & Time: March 15 (Fri) 18:00-22:30
Venue: SUPER DOMMUNE *Studio viewing is also available. Admission free, Capacity: 50 (First-come, first-served basis)
https://ccbt.rekibun.or.jp/events/synflux_superdommune
◯Open Dialogue “Open Dialogue: Fashion Design for the Digital Self“
Date & Time: March 20 (Wed) 11:00-18:30
Capacity: 【Session 1】【Session 2】Capacity: 90 (First-come, first-served basis)
【Session 3】Capacity: 30 (Pre-Registration Required)
detailed information: https://ccbt.rekibun.or.jp/events/synflux_opendialogue
CCBT Artis Fellow
Synflux
WORTH: Digital Fashion Platform
Synflux’s project at CCBT attempts to redefine digital fashion as something sustainable for the future. Alongside an exhibition showcasing Synflux’s activities as well as historical contexts and transdisciplinary trends, the project includes talks sharing the insights of influential figures and experts from different fields, and a new online archive. By developing these as a platform, the project will disclose the diversity of digital fashion in which not only virtual spaces but also physical experiences and manufacturing all intersect. It aspires to expand the values of Synflux’s previous Algorithmic Couture and WORTH efforts into the community, and to present the future possibilities of fashion offered by generation and regeneration.
CCBT Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs, the Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better. Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
Details: CCBT Art Incubation Program
