XS Labs is launching the SKORPIONS project!!!!

XS Labs is a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and wearable computing, where we try to break down the traditional boundaries between disciplines. Many of our electronic textile innovations come from the fact that we look at the technical but also cultural history of how textiles have been made for generations (weaving, stitching, embroidery, knitting, beading, quilting) but use materials with different electro-mechanical properties, which enables us to construct more complex textiles with electronic properties.

We are showing work and giving talks.

We are also trying out a blog... and have some images on Flickr as well as videos on YouTube.

"We are facing a future world infested with digital programmability. A world where our structures and possessions include, as a matter of course, locaters, timers, identities, histories, origins, and destinations: sensing, logic, actuation, and displays. Loops within loops. Cycles within cycles."
When Blobjects Rule the Earth
by Bruce Sterling
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, August 2004

Our research is or has been supported by:
The Canada Council for the Arts
The Faculty of Fine Arts and Concordia University (where we are based)
Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Canadian Heritage
Centre interuniversitaire en arts médiatiques (CIAM)
Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC)
The Banff New Media Institute and the Banff Center

Collaborations Include:
The Skorpions with Di Mainstone
The Excitable Sites with Barbara Layne, Chris Salter and Sha Xin Wei.
The Addressable Dress project with Barbara Layne.
The Topological Media Lab at Hexagram
The Code Zebra project with Sara Diamond