DataPaulette is a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to researching and developing interactions between textile practices and digital technologies. Since 2014, the collective has grown around the values inherited from hackerspaces: an open and inclusive environment where knowledge and experimentation are shared freely.
Our research takes the form of both artistic installations and scientific or theoretical publications, through which we question the environmental and social impact of technologies on our societies. Driven by a desire to slow down and to experiment against the grain of digital immediacy, we weave connections between traditional crafts and digital innovations in order to rethink time and the ways we make.
For us, this hybrid approach is a way of imagining more resilient and respectful practices. We are also committed to transmission: we regularly give lectures and lead workshops in schools and cultural institutions to share our practices and contribute to a broader collective reflection. DataPaulette is a space where art, design, and science engage in dialogue with ecology, taking the time to question our relationship with technologies while imagining more sustainable and desirable futures.
The collective's work has been exhibited at the UABB Bi-City Biennale of Architecture/Urbanism (Shenzhen-Hong Kong), the Ars Electronica Festival, and M+ Museum in Hong Kong. Their research has also been published by the Cite du Design and presented at the Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), and their work has been nominated for the STARTS Prize.
Status
- Workspace, DataPaulette, Montreuil 93100
- Hackerspace, L'Antenne Paulette, Séverac 44530
- Textile workspace, La pointe, Saint André 66168
- Lab, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Members
Audrey BRIOT is a textile artist and designer. Her work is dedicated to the impact of emerging technologies on the preservation of textile know-how. She focuses on the non-verbal communication transmitted by textiles, which for her represent a culture in their own right and a substitute for writing, making them a medium for communication.
Her practice combines high and low tech. To the mastery of traditional textile techniques, she connects open-source tools, electronics, do-it-yourself practices, the détourning of tools, and digital craftsmanship. Blending art and science, she uses textiles to sense and transmit the invisible universe that surrounds us and to communicate beyond the boundaries of the body. They become tangible vectors of memory, containing data and interactivity.
She lives and works in Saint-André, in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Martin DE BIE is a designer, researcher, and teacher; he weaves bridges between craftsmanship and digital technologies. A graduate of ESADSE and of the EnsADLab research department at EnsAD, co-founder of the collective DataPaulette and recipient of the 2019 research grant from the Agora du Design, he divides his time between teaching digital cultures and practices, notably at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, and his personal research.
His work explores the hybridization between artisanal know-how and emerging processes, with the ambition of outlining more resilient futures for the technological objects that shape our daily lives, in resonance with current ecological issues. He pays particular attention to the documentation of processes, convinced of the richness of the dialogue between research and transmission, each experimentation nourishing the other.
He lives and works in Paris.
Alice GIORDANI is a developer, researcher and teacher. Passionate about new interactions, embedded systems, and textile craft practices, She has been working for several years to combine these areas of expertise. She is an active member of the collective DataPaulette and initiated the creation of a new branch that returns to the origins of the collective: the Antenne Paulette hackspace, in Loire-Atlantique.
Attentive to technical and technological developments, her priority is to create sustainable and innovative technological works. She also leads workshops and training sessions in eTextile, introductory electronics, and machines such as 3D printers and laser cutters in higher education institutions and fablabs.
She lives and works in Sévérac.
Cédric HONNET is a PhD candidate in human-computer interaction at the MIT Media Lab, where he focuses on wearables. Before starting his doctorate, he worked for ten years as an embedded systems engineer, between video processor design in Silicon Valley and firmware engineering in various start-ups in San Francisco, London, Paris, and Shenzhen.
His explorations between research laboratories, tech-art residencies, and hackerspaces have allowed him to experiment with all kinds of interfaces such as eTextile musical controllers, augmented immersive systems, artistic installations, interactive implants, 3D positioning systems, and other open-source projects documented online.
He lives and works in Boston.
Associate members:
Marc Teyssier
Former members:
Maurin Donneaud
Vincent Dugast