Lit Lace Interface

Through this project we brought together Internet of Things and sensor technology and smart textiles to offer something unique to the performance industry. Building on previous collaborative work which explored the creative potential of Lit Lace, a light emitting cloth as dynamic backdrops for theatre. We have been able to develop and test a user-interface prototype system using ‘Igor’ Internet of Things architecture to control effects within the cloth as part of an existing theatre/performance lighting set-up. As an integrated system, we can offer creative solutions for responsive backdrops and theatre set design, and creative options for performance end users. The work was funded by the Worth Project Partnership in collaboration with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. We worked with Jack Jansen and Steven Pemberton who are part of the Distributed and Interactive Systems research group which focuses on facilitating and improving the way people access media and communicate with others and with the environment.