C’YBORG_ORGANISM
Category: Apparel
Competitions: International
My final project, C’YBORG_ORGANISM, explores the integration of our contemporary world. This project uses the concept of a cybernetic organism as a metaphor for our current situation, urging us to recode our identities and place in an ever-evolving world. It presents a dual vision: a cybernetic organism disrupting primordial unity, challenging classification, promoting chaos over control, and defining reality through coexistence—the present and the potential stranger. Technology brings a paradoxical reality, creating a collision of worlds, ideologies, and bodies that is both fruitful and threatening, forming a multifaceted fabric rich in loopholes and opportunities. Our world resembles a military-industrial complex, where medicine risks creating emotionless clones while cultivating hybrid identities that merge the natural and technological. My collection celebrates the diversity and fusion of the foreign and the contradictory, challenging traditional categorization and defining unity as the coexistence of handcrafted natural materials like unique leathers and the utilization of technology in design and realization. In my collection, a dress crafted from laser-cut patterns exemplifies the intricate transformation from 2D to 3D. Utilizing a 2D flattening pattern, I translated 3D lines into precise 2D designs, resulting in even sharper lines and a striking geometric aesthetic. This dress serves as a commentary on the digital world's 3D figures, which often lack identity and highlight the tension between individuality and the rise of technology, leading to the creation of clones. This 2D representation is meticulously constructed using UV coordinates, commonly known as texture coordinates. The U axis represents the horizontal dimension, while the V axis represents the vertical dimension. Each UV coordinate corresponds to a vertex in 3D space. These vertices connect to form edges, edges connect to form faces, faces connect to form polygons, and polygons connect to form surfaces. By mapping the 3D shape into a 2D plane, we create a UV map that guides the laser-cutting process. The image below illustrates how a 3D cube can be decomposed into a 2D texture to create a UV map, showcasing the transformation from a 3D object to a 2D representation. This meticulous process ensures that the dress embodies the dual vision of C’YBORG_ORGANISM, merging traditional craftsmanship with technological precision.
