Wired

September 2018

Leading designer and model Siranush

Methods for wire dress design: drilling, thermal wire-molding.

Wire dress, 108 copper in rubber wires, black spray paint, 245 zip ties in white, red, blue, yellow and pink, 2x2’’ stainless steel wire rope cable, copper wire fixators. Sponsored by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recycling facility, MIT ACT Maker Space and Siranush.

I was scared of wires and electricity. Now they are a part of me, my extensions into a different reality, a part of my beauty.

 
 
Me wanting an iPad/trackpad technology at 3 years old. My mom in background <3

Me wanting an iPad/trackpad technology at 3 years old. My mom in background <3

Dream it.

When I was a kid I loved playing in my mother’s computer science lab that my (first such laboratory in Armenia that my father founded for CS education). Quickly I started getting frustrated by the fact that I needed to know so much about the hardware to get connected with the software.

Me collecting MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab technotrash.

Me collecting MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab technotrash.

Build it.

I never, thus, studied programming until the time when I was challenged at an internship at NASA. Once I came back, I went to the place at MIT where one could find most of the most frustrating and old-fashioned computer stuff, the trash of MIT CSAIL, and collected materials to play with and make something beautiful.

Wire organizing units for making of the wired dress.

Wire organizing units for making of the wired dress.

Transcend it.

In particular, by that time, I was acquainted by the wireless technology and the opportunity to overlay new software reality through virtual reality and augmented reality. I focused on wires to get myself wired one last time, surround myself with my old friends. As I was working with them, their fractured ends scratched and made me bleed, as if they wanted to one last time fully connect with me.

Contributors

Designers and Models Siranush Babakhanova and Garrett Souza

Photography by Elahe Ahmadi and Alexander Jaimes Laiman