EXHIBITS AT THE CROSSING: E-JACKET

E-Jacket

Pilgrimages show us a rich space of traditional media. Portable shrines, adornments, amulets, and necklaces scaffold the pilgrim to enter and remember transformative experiences. Wearable computing could restore these dimensions.

The world or ritual tradition speaks of Nyasa, a system of communication and ritual purification through which the yogi establishes correspondence between the world without and the world within. By having hotspots on jackets, wearable computing allows people to click on themselves, and remember the links between the outer and inner worlds.

Wearable computing allows pilgrims to carry their sacred city while on the move. The portable image, whether icons or prayer beads or amulets, address an important need found in all strata of society to connect to sacred centers.

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The yogi meditates by the river reflecting on the correspondence between outer and inner elements. Clicking on the embroidered buttons on the e-jacket allows the yogi to internalize the elements, the lights, the forests, mountains, man-made cosmos and ultimately the “Ganga within”. Wearable computing allows people to carry our symbols but, more importantly, it allows people to click on themselves.

Jacket details (Below)

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