Audrey Briot

Stymphalian Birds – human-eating pets of Artemis in Greek Mythology – are said to have metallic feathers. Using their feathers as arrows, they have a beauty that is both attractive and dangerous. Awards: Nomination at STARTS Prize 2020 — STARTS (Science, Technology & the Arts) is an initiative of the European Commission, launched under the Horizon …

Topographie digitale is an interactive installation by DataPaulette. This landscape uses electrically functionalized and pleated textiles as sensitive surfaces reacting to touch to interact with a video-projected digital clone of this scenery. The project is an illustration of hybridization between our scientific discovery and traditional craftsmanship as a “creole” technique, a fundamental subject of research …

Listening Space is an artistic research developed with Afroditi Psarra that explores transmission ecologies as a means of perceiving the surrounding environment beyond our human abilities. Conceptually the project seeks to define transmissions ecologies as raw material for artistic expression, to understand and re-imagine in poetic means, representations of audio and images broadcasted from space. …

DataPaulette is an independent laboratory dedicated to research and development in textiles and digital technologies created in 2014. Check Topographie Digitale‘s article for me infos about our ongoing project. Publications : De Bie, M., & Briot, A. (2021). Le textile électronique, un savoir-faire créole. Dans MàJ Design, environnements techniques & pratiques exploratoires (p. 29‑32). Cité …

Quantified Epopee est un projet de recherche mené avec Martin De Bie sur de nouveaux modes de narration dans la tapisserie contemporaine. Le projet questionne les conditions de la narration, au regard des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication émergeant dans l’univers de l’art textile. Quantified Epopee interroge l’impact du numérique sur la …

Collective swatch with Lien Wei Ti for HFF2020 – Tribe Against Machine Online residency with NTCRI Taiwan 2020 This swatch brings together Taiwanese local craftsmanship and DIY electronics manufacturing to etch conductive textiles and create flexible PCB. The goal of this experiment is to etch away copper from a conductive textile to make a flexible …

Precious jacquards is a series of textile designs and knitwear developed on hacked knitting machine with the menswear designer Martin Bady. The project is supported by Reblend.

 The Inapparent project is a collaboration with the wood carver and drawer Victor Giannotta. Our project is part of a desire to cross artisanal et digital manufacturing processes. Oak wood is the basis of the experience. It influenced the production of pieces of knit by the emitted sounds of tools during the work on the oak. The …

Quatrichromical screen print giving high quality results similar to pictures. Composed of functional inks such as hydrochromic pigments, leuco dyes and glow in the dark pigments.

ASCIIMAGE is a software to promote steganography and craft textile memories. This software consists on a number of command-line interface in Python combining some ImageMagick’s utilities to transform texts into patterns.  Each letter is encoded in binary code on 8 bits according to ASCII codes, the eighth bit is zero.  This software was kindly developed …

Tribe Against Machine is a residency on sharing knowledges between tribal peoples and etextiles practioners in an Atayal village in Taiwan. This event was co-organized by Yuma Taru, a living national treasure of the country.

LoomHack is an improvement for hand weaving machines. In order to create complex and infinite patterns with optical fibers, I thought to computerized to DataPaulette’s ARM loom with an Arduino board, switches and addressable leds. Developed with Le Jack Arm 24 shafts hacked -first step from DataPaulette on Vimeo.

Versatile comes to me as an interior of a transition space, maybe a concept-car inspired by beds “à la polonaise”. In this space you take the time to wake you up, the time to reach the surface… this surface is scattered by light, a light that crosses corals. Versatile is a module which evaluate with …