Vidmina Stasiulytė - researcher & educator
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Vidmina Stasiulytė is a researcher and educator who is pioneering the field of sonic fashion and experimental aesthetics
Vidmina's background is interdisciplinary—she graduated with a Bachelor in Fashion Design and continued her Master's project on Sound in Photography and Media Art at Vilnius Academy of Arts. These two later merged into a unique discourse on Sonic Fashion when doing the doctoral research.
She received her Ph.D. from The Swedish School of Textiles, the University of Borås, in 2020. Vidmina's doctoral thesis “Wearing Sound: Foundations of Sonic Design” investigates the dressed body as a temporal form and sonic expression. Her Ph.D. research was granted by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 642328.
Currently, Vidmina works as a leader of the research project Sonic Fashion and a senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden.
Research profiles:
Ongoing research projects
Sonic Fashion (leading researcher)
The research is designed to explore and design new sonic textiles (year 1), investigate complex sonic expressions of the dress in relation to the body (year 2), and develop the methodological guidelines for designing the sonic expressions (year 3). The mentioned components will result in the foundations for the unique design methods and tools that could be used for educational purposes. The research will employ the most suitable methods, such as embodied design ideation, sound documentation, research workshops, co-creation with visually impaired people and students from textile and fashion design, sound and performance art. Nevertheless, the research purpose to facilitate long-term effect— inclusive fashion education that would consider non-visual aesthetics as a part of the education program. The main contribution of this research project, such as the palette of sonic textiles, vocabulary for sonic expressions, design methods and tools, will expand the knowledge in the fashion design field and even beyond it. Within the short term, the new knowledge would move forward the content of fashion studies and expand upon the methods and tools used in fashion education. The inclusive aspect of introducing non-visual aesthetics into such a visual field would innovate the current research frontier to rethink what fashion is and what kind of education the universities want to propose in a long term.
Funded by The Swedish Research Council, grant agreement ID: 2021-01399
MuseIT (participating researcher)
The MuseIT project aims to co-design, develop, and co-evaluate a multisensory, user-centred platform for enriched engagement with cultural assets with inclusion and equal opportunity for all as core principles. The MuseIT innovation is rooted in multisensory representations of cultural heritage which extend beyond the visual and auditory senses. The MuseIT platform will enable creation of alternative expressions and modes of representations (including digitization, translations, interpretations, and/or transmediation for enriched aesthetic experiences) of a set of pre-defined cultural assets (objects, architectural sites, intangible assets) as proofs of concept, through different means, by different actors, and for different audiences. Multisensory representations afforded by the MuseIT platform will take into account variations in perceptual modalities and functional and cognitive abilities of audiences, while catering for different needs and preferences in order to create equal opportunities for all. Therefore, multi-layered representations including visual, auditory, and haptic cues will be central in the project.
Funded by Horizon 2020, grant agreement ID: 101061441
Short bio
Education
2015 - 2020
Doctoral Degree in Artistic Research, Fashion Design, The Swedish School of Textiles
2012 - 2015
Master of Visual Arts, Photography and Media Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts
2007 - 2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fashion Design, Vilnius Academy of Arts
Grants
2022 - 2024
2022 - 2025
2015 - 2020
Sonic Fashion, funded by The Swedish Research Council, grant agreement ID: 2021-01399
MuseIT, funded by Horizon 2020, grant agreement ID: 101061441
ArcInTexETN, funded by H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, grant agreement ID: 642328
Awards
2015
The best sound composition, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Lithuania
2011
The best concept for speculative design and architecture project Space and Future of Humanity, International Movement Youth Time, Czech Republic
2010
2009
The best application of a concept, Habitus Baltija, Latvia
The winner of the international fashion competition „Fashion Injection“, Fashion Infection, Lithuania
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2020
Sound to Wear (interactive body-objects, sound composition, sound installation),
Textile Museum, Sweden
2015
Auditory Imagination: Inner Monologues with Other (spatial sound composition for 16 speakers),
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Lithuania
2012
Homo (video, interactive sculpture), gallery Vartai, Lithuania
Group
2023
Body-Space. Embodied Listening Practices (video) at Domestic Provocations: Creativity as a Provocateur of Care and Vice Versa, keynote exhibition, (video), 30 A-1 Township, Pakistan
2021
Sound to Wear (interactive sound-objects) at UFNA: 1st International Art Triennial Unpredictable Futures, Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology, Lithuania
2018
Noisy Bodies (sound composition) at Beyond Seeing: Innovative ways of sensory fashion design,
La Villette, France
2016
Micro-Tectonics (video) at the Istanbul Design Biennial'16, Istanbul, Turkey
2016
Future Ways of Wearing. Wearing Sound, (sound installation), designtransfer, Germany
2014
Genome (body-objects' installation) at Fashion as Art, Berlin Fashion Week, Berlin, Germany