Dancer Performs Wearing An "Exoskeleton" Of Light

There's plenty of talk about wearable technology at the moment, you can blame Google Glass for that. But while that kind of wearable tech lets people surf the web and take photos, there is another, more experimental kind. And falling into the latter is this project from Patryk Lichota and dancer Marta Romaszkan called Lightskin.

For this project a dancer wears a wirelessly-controlled suit where "a light composition creates an exoskeleton over the dancer's body" mapping out her shape as she moves about in the dark. The performance is controlled in real-time, with the lights flickering and stuttering in time with the sounds, leaving trails of light and movement as Romaszkan makes her way across the space.

It's basically a one-person rave—no need to go out for some glow stick or strobe action when you can have this level of entertainment wearing a light suit and throwing yourself around. Minoru Fujimoto'sLED suit is similar in concept and features a suit that synchs with the user's movements for an audiovisual performance.

Today they're at the experimental fringes, tomorrow we'll all be busting one of these on the dance floor. Maybe. Hopefully.

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