UNIQLO HEATTECH THERMOART

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ThermoArt is a new form of thermography-based visual expression, inspired by HEATTECH technology. Just like HEATTECH that generates heat from vapors diffusing through your skin, ThermoArt creates an art that emanates from your body that is uniquely you. Warm up your heart and your imagination with HEATTECH this winter.

  • HEAT MOTION by DAITO MANABE
  • WARMTH TESSERA by RAVEN KWOK + AKINI JING

MESSAGE

There's never been a time in our collective history that we've placed so much focus on health, safety and well being. Regardless of country, gender or age, STAY HOME is a fact of life now. In this day and age, HeatTech can deliver STAY WARM to the world Cutting edge tech that self-generates and insulates heat. It gives you warmth, right on your skin. Say goodbye to layers of clothing and excessive use of indoor heating. Say hello to a new world where heat generated by you, will keep you warm and cozy. Uniqlo innovation for a warmer winter, the world over. #WeStayWarmTogether

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PRODUCT

HEATTECH - JAPAN TECHNOLOGY

HEATTECH is a technology of converting the
moisture released from
the body into heat.
It gives you warmth, right on your skin.
Say hello to
a new world where heat generated
by you, will keep you warm and cozy.

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WHAT IS HEATTECH TECHNOLOGY?

UNIQLO HEATTECH THERMOART

HEAT MOTION by DAITO MANABE

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Human body temperature, and infrared radiation energy is something that becomes visible for the first time through a thermal camera. The first impression of it is something that many might feel at the airport, which is the rawness of it. From the side that is getting their image taken, the data does not give you a great a feeling about it, and because I received a theme to turn that data into a visual expression, I developed a software that converts the subjects body temperature into motion graphic. Technology wise, 3 cameras including, a color camera to shoot the live action, a thermal camera to detect infrared radiant energy, and a depth camera to measure the distance was used to shoot the subject, and generated a graphic by analyzing the subjects infrared radiant energy and its movement. The data sensed by the thermo camera, such as the infrared radiant energy, and body temperature, is usually bland, and I think nowadays, it is often used as a negative check to measure the body temperature. However, by not only sensing the data, but by also using it as a material to create a graphic, the act of measuring the body temperature could turn into something fun.

DAITO MANABE

Launched Rhizomatiks in 2006. Manabe’s work in design, art, and entertainment takes a new approach to everyday materials and phenomenon. However, his end goal is not simply rich, high-definition realism by recognizing and recombining these familiar elemental building blocks. Rather, his practice is informed by careful observation to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelationships and boundaries delineating the analog and digital, real and virtual.

ThermoArt is a new form of thermography-based
visual expression, inspired by HEATTECH technology.
By each artist combining both thermal, and color camera,
it enables to combine and reconstruct the
human movement and the heat distribution data.
The following will introduce the behind the scenes of this artwork.

UNIQLO HEATTECH THERMOART

WARMTH TESSERA by RAVEN KWOK + AKINI JING

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It uses the squares extracted from HEATTECH's logo, to visualize thermal energy generated through the human body. It shows the transitional process of space getting filled and warmed up by heat. Technically, an infrared thermal camera is used to simultaneously capture the heat data of Akini Jing's body during the dance video shooting. The heat data is later aligned and mapped to the standard camera video footage, and eventually fed into a customized program to generate visual art. The generative system is designed and implemented using processing. Its core element is a tessellation based on 2-D tree map. The wire frame structure morphs and subdivides itself with Akini's dance moves. At the same time, based on captured heat data, squares that represent thermal energy are getting released from her body. The heat squares travel between cells in the tessellation, spreading out over the whole image space until saturation is reached. By interpreting We stay warm together metaphorically, and including "kindness and compassion for each other" in the expression, it expresses the "good intentions and philanthropy" that accepts the kindness of others and is kind to those who need it.

Raven Kwok

Raven Kwok (aka Guo, Ruiwen) is a visual artist and creative technologist. His artistic and research interest mainly focus on exploring generative visual aesthetic brought by computer algorithms and software processes. In 2014, Kwok graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with the M.F.A. degree in Electronic Arts. His works have been exhibited and screened at media art and film festivals worldwide, including Ars Electronica, Electronic Language International Festival (FILE), Vienna Independent Shorts (VIS), Punto y Raya (PyR), Resonate, FIBER, etc.

AKINI JING

Born in Pu’er, Yunan, China, Jing is good at integrating her in-depth thoughts on the universe, science and technology, and human beings into her artistic creation. As a song-writer and music producer, Jing worked with multi major music talents with over 10 million global music sales, and topping major music charts. In 2019, Jing revealed a new image as a cyborg, Akini Jing, to bring us an unique inhuman perspective. Akini Jing released her cyborg concept album ‘Plastic Heaven’ in autumn, 2020.

ThermoArt is a new form of thermography-based
visual expression, inspired by HEATTECH technology.
By each artist combining both thermal, and color camera,
it enables to combine and reconstruct the
human movement and the heat distribution data.
The following will introduce the behind the scenes of this artwork.