RES EX MACHINA Today – Footwear, where gravity is the exception Zero-pointe In wrapping the feet for microgravity, the cosmic ballet, the bound, and the specular. Here footwear for performance in low gravity environments, these zero-pointe shoes. Nimoy, as Spock, animated on the Simpsons, parodying himself as indistinguishable from the actor character barrier dynamic, post reality bleeding fictional mind-meld aftereffect – hewn and left in the cosmic void. It sparks the question on the body through new time. Beauty standards are a vestigial result of physical fitness from random mutations in a previously ever-changing combination of climate, location and resource. And where gravity, our most attractive friend, defines much of this, how will it all shift when the effect of other planets on the body demand fantastic and inventive changes to our physiology. Where shifting cultural taste now influences the current fashion, this too is a result of a static environments and homogenous living conditions. As soon as we are required to withstand the gravity of our Venus or the solitary lightness of the interstellar craft in the breathless vacuum of space, what evolves of those attributes that both excel in the condition and influence the aesthetic - What part of the body grows and what waste away? When anticipation grows, waiting on new stories and myths from these undiscovered trace movements, body forms, and constrained social dynamics mixing for the telling of space opera, low weight ballet and the insidious loss of muscle tone. ​​#srulirecht #midjourney #midjourneyai #aiarchitecture #aiart #generativeart #generativedesign #aidesign #avantgardedesign #dezeen #designboom #computation #midjourneyart #midjourneyaiart #midjourneyartwork #midjourneycommunity #midjourneygallery #midjourney #footwear #footweardesign #aifootwear #featuredfootwear #footweardesigner #sandals