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Peacocks and wallflowers: (in)visibility with digital jewellery

Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, works{at}sarahkettley.com

As a genre of Ubiquitous Computing, wearables inherited a paradigmatic ideal of disappearance and, until very recently, visibility was treated as a simplistic dichotomous issue of overt versus covert technology. In line with calls by theorists in New Media for oscillation between states of invisibility and reflection in the design of interfaces, this article presents findings from a networked jewellery project which reconceptualize this problem as both situated and dynamic, revealing that wearable artefacts segue between high states of visibility and disappearance just as they afford their wearers new ways of maintaining social presence.

Key Words: craft • design • (dis)appearance • (in)visibility • jewellery • methodology • technology • ubiquitous computing

Visual Communication, Vol. 7, No. 3, 303-315 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1470357208092321


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