{"id":33697,"date":"2017-09-01T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=33697"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:26:00","slug":"bionic-extensions-art-body-annouk-wipprecht-viktoria-modesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/bionic-extensions-art-body-annouk-wipprecht-viktoria-modesta","title":{"rendered":"A Leg and Two Tusks: Viktoria Modesta, Prosthetics, and Performance Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viktoriamodesta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viktoria Modesta<\/a> is a model, musician, and self-described \u201cbionic pop artist.\u201d Born in Latvia, Modesta suffered a leg injury at birth and decided to have her left leg amputated below the knee in 2007. For the past several years, she has made prosthetics a central part of her performance art. Here\u2019s \u201cPrototype,\u201d a groundbreaking music video she shot with the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel 4<\/a> that ends with a dance on a pointed prosthetic leg:<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jA8inmHhx8c?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Modesta has found a regular creative partner in Dutch designer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anoukwipprecht.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anouk Wipprecht<\/a>, who plays at the intersection of fashion and technology and shows her work at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, the MAK Museum in Vienna, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tetem.nl\/portfolio\/robotic-couture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solo show called \u201cRobotic Couture\u201d at Tetem<\/a>, an exhibition hall in Enschede, the Netherlands. (We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/31146-robot-couture-fashion-tech-anouk-wipprecht.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote about \u201cRobotic Couture\u201d<\/a> last month.)<\/p>\n<p>This video from last year shows how Wipprecht created a custom prosthetic for Modesta:<\/p>\n<p class=\"video-responsive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/163705296\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now Modesta, Wipprecht, and a pair of architects from <a href=\"http:\/\/monadstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monad Studio<\/a> in Miami have created Sonifica, a set of prosthetics that are not only beautiful, but also meaningful and provocative extensions of a musical performance. In addition to a prosthetic leg, the team designed a bodice with two protruding tusks that can be used to modulate sounds, almost like a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theremin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theremins<\/a>. \u201cThe tusks create a different silhouette,\u201d Modesta <a href=\"http:\/\/fashnerd.com\/2017\/08\/anouk-wipprecht-sonifica-wearables-3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a recent interview<\/a>. \u201cIt gives you a more animalistic skeleton, but also has almost a sexual addition to the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Modesta presented Sonifica at Art Basel Miami. The collaboration was sponsored by Autodesk, which produced this video about the process. \u201cYou&#8217;ve got science and art mixing in such and intense way, and you don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s going to go,\u201d Modesta says in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"video-responsive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fautodesk%2Fvideos%2F1603034766407810%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktoria Modesta is a model, musician, and self-described \u201cbionic pop artist.\u201d Born in Latvia, Modesta suffered a leg injury at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":34075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489],"tags":[480,1635,513,1728,1981,2186],"class_list":["post-33697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-and-design","tag-4-art","tag-2-community","tag-39-fashion","tag-fashion-tech","tag-performance","tag-prosthetics"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screenshot-2017-09-01-10.55.58.png","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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