The possibilities to generate changes in the textile’s surface and color, or to improve their technical characteristics are some areas of research today. Based on a series of examples, this presentation introduces wearable technologies and smart textiles and will point out some of the paradigmatic changes that have occurred in the definition of form and surfaces from an interactive point of view.

At the 12th edition of the VIDA awards for Art and Artifical Life, › CONNECT by Andeas Muxel was awarded the second prize. The piece will be shown at ARCO, Contemporary Art Madrid from February 17th until 21st.

The installation › The Leak by Thomas Hawranke is shown at the festival TEMPS D’IMAGES at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf.

At the art gallery of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 in Yokohama, Japan the performance › INsideOUT by Claudia Robles is shown.

Here we describe how to generate sine waves with an Arduino board in a very accurate way. Almost no additional hardware is required. The frequency range reaches form zero to 16 KHz with a resolution of a millionth part of one Hertz! Distortions can be kept less than one percent on frequencies up to 3 KHz. This technique is not only useful for music and sound generation another range of application is test equipment or measurement instrumentation. Also in telecommunication the DDS Method is useful for instance in frequency of phase modulation (FSK PSK).