Vincent Leclerc

I recently graduated from the MIT Media Lab and co-founded ESKI. I also make electronic textiles at XS Labs, and teach Physical Computing in the Design & Computation Arts department at Concordia University.  
This is a chronological repository of interactive artefacts I have had the opportunity to build and play with.  
Feel free to use and abuse these ideas in accordance with the license below.  

(CC) 2000-2010 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike extended to everything documented on this domain unless otherwise stated.  

                

 



PROJECTS

Captain Electric & Battery Boy  Power generating garments.

Flip Deck  An animated skateboard.

Frisson  A temperature changing necklace.

revolver  A three dimensional video display.

Accouphene  A sonic tuxedo with manipulable fabric speakers.

Senspectra  A strain-aware physical modeling toolkit.

strike  Who said trikes needed handle bars?

FatJab  A super expressive inkjet printer.

glume  A computationally enhanced translucent modeling medium.

Sparks  An ambient social networking interface.

deflatables  Tangible fluid spaces around the body.

inflatables  Garments with dynamic morphological output.

blazer  Light that snaps.

MAWSE  A new type of computer mouse.

soundSleeves  A flex and touch sensor entirely made with fabric.

conicScape  A wearable synthesizer.

life  The Game of Life layered on physical and digital organisms.

fear(this)  Pure mayhem. Turn up the volume.

Poop'm Up  You're now free to fly around the city.

memoire vive  The deluge of a digital archive.

lossful  An early version of memoire vive.

mailSender  Yet another webmail GUI.

PUBLICATIONS

Captain Electric and Battery Boy: prototypes for wearable power-generating artifacts Berzowska, J., Beaulieu, M., Leclerc, V., Orain, G., Marchand, C., Cournoyer, C., Paris, E., Frankel, L., Sesartic, M. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 25 – 27, 2010).

Senspectra: A Computationally Augmented Physical Modeling Toolkit for Sensing and Visualization of Structural Strain Leclerc, V., Parkes, A., and Ishii, H. 2007. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007).

Glume: Exploring Materiality in a Soft Augmented Modular Modeling System Parkes, A., Leclerc, V., and Ishii, H. 2006. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2006).

SPARKS Chew, A., Leclerc, V., Sadi, S., Tang, A., Ishii, H., In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, Oregon, USA, 2005).


LEARNING

BS2  Electronics and programming for the Basic Stamp 2.

5PCB   Simple circuit board printing using toner transfer.



NEWS

2010.02.05 Revolver @ Kinetica 2010 (London, UK)

2010.02.04 Captain Electric & Battery Boy @ CODE Live 2 (Vancouver, BC)

2010.01.06 Tours de magie @ Fais Ta Valise! (Montreal, QC)

2009.10.21 ESKI @ RDV Design (Montreal, QC)

2009.05.08 Flip Deck @ Transistor Design Skate Expo 5 (Studio P, Quebec, QC)

2009.04.03 Au delà du web @ Webdesign.Go (Rouyn-Noranda, QC)

2009.03.19 Accouphene in Fashion Geek

2009.01.01 Memoire Vive in Artexte SUPPLEMENT

2008.12.21 SoundSleeves in ODDS & ENDS

2008.10.21 Hybrides Numériques @ Journée Grafika: Créativité Numérique (Montréal, QC)

2008.10.18 E-Sea @ Shanghai E-Arts 2008 (Pudong, China)

2008.09.24 Pneus @ Champ Libre (Monopoli Gallery, Montreal, QC)

2008.08.01 Accouphene in Page 08.2008

2008.05.19 Accouphene, SoundSleeves & Blazer in Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour

2008.01.30 Frisson @ Seamless 2008 (Museum of Science, Boston, MA)

2007.12.05 Inflatables, Vibrators & Spraying Machines @ Montreal Pecha Kucha 3 (Society for Arts & Technology, Montreal, QC)

2007.04.30 Senspectra @ CHI2007 (San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA)

2007.02.01 Computing Matter @ Dorkbot Montreal (Concordia University, Montreal, QC)

2006.10.31 Revolver @ Interfaces Montreal (Society for Arts & Technology, Montreal, QC)

2006.09.28 Revolver @ WIRED NEXTFEST (Javits Center, NYC)

2006.08.07 Pinkies @ ISEA2006 (San Jose, CA)

2006.06.19 Tangible Media & Computing Matter @ Creativity Lab (ITRI, Taipei, Taiwan)

2006.04.28 Malleable Computing @ AATCCT Conference (Marriott Mystic, Groton, CT)

2006.04.24 Glume @ CHI2006 (Palais des Congrès, Montreal, QC)

2006.02.01 Accouphene @ Seamless2 (Museum of Science, Boston, MA)

2006.01.26 Tangible Media & Computing Matter @ Second Skin & SoftWear (Concordia University, Montreal, QC)

2005.09.29 Knuckles, pinkies and other digital artifacts @ TWENTY1F Meetings (Parsons School of Design, NYC)

2005.09.16 The FatJab @ COLLISIONeight (ArtInteractive, Cambridge, MA)

2005.08.29 Irrational Geographic Society @ Burning Man (9:30 & Esplanade, Black Rock City, ND)

2005.08.25 The FatJab in I.D. Magazine

2005.04.25 Revolver in Make 01