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“LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression.”
Their website has a great flash landing page, in which the user morphs the image of a face between one of Bart or Lucy, depending on the mouse position.
“For me, the most important thing for people to learn from our work is that you can actually enjoy making art or design. I think that many people get really stressed about producing work, and they forget what creativity is all about.” – Bart Hess
I guess we started working together because we were talking about a lot of ideas, and it was not possible to realise these ideas in the brief of an electronic tattoo, which we were working on at Philips in the probes team. The Philips work is a far future design reseach programme looking fifteen to twenty years into the future. The programme explores the human body and suggests that our bodies are increasingly becoming a platform for sensitive and interactive technology, the project accelerates a vision for next generation sensitive technology mounted under the skin, where subcutaneous display could be augmented by human sensation, gesture and touch (www.design.philips.com/probes). So anyway, we started collaborating one evening doing fun things, wrapping our heads in sticky-tape and from there it all began… creating work together just in our spare time.” – Lucy McRae
Quotes supplied by Indigo Clarke
