[-empyre-] until Thursday Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures

[Renate Ferro]

We will be wrapping up our discussion on Thursday and introducing a new
topic on Biennial Culture.

We have a couple of more days left on Wearable Technologies:
 Cross-disciplinary Ventures.  I'm hoping that *Janis Jefferies* (UK), *Valérie
Lamontagne*  (CA), *Ashley Ferro-Murray* (US), *Sabine Seymour* (US), *Susan
Elizabeth Ryan* (US), *Danielle Wilde* (AU/FR), *Sarah Kettley (UK), and **Lucy
Dunne* (*US)* will make a few closing remarks based on the discussion thus
far and the questions and comments that a few other subscribers including
Johannes have raised.

Our intent on focusing this month was to highlight particularly those who
work in the fields of wearable design technology.  In 2005 Christina MePhee
hosted a discussion on wearable technology in relationship to social and
public art practice.  For a review of that discussion go to
https://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2005-August/date.html

Renate



On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Johannes Birringer <
Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk> wrote:

> hi all
>
> I think it was Sarah who wrote that she is interested in the "distributed
> nature of wearable systems at all levels,"
> and i was wondering why that is being assumed, that wearables are
> distributed?    Did not David argue the
> exact opposite when speaking of habitus and the "distinctiveness" of social
> performativity which would
> then seem to require some kind of expressive or articulated difference from
> general circulation;
> i guess one would have to discuss more specifically how aesthethic and
> functionalist wearables
> distribute anything, or how they are distributed.
> I was also curious about the contention to work from "people" (material) to
> "concept" and why this is an advantage?
> >>
> In terms of craft, one of my main proposals is that we work from the
> material to the concept (or function) – and here material can mean cloth,
> circuitry, or people. In this way, wearable technology and systems might
> become grounded in patterns of the everyday instead of being characterised
> as gadgetry.>> (Sarah Kettley).
>
> Referring to wearables as gadgetry seems to run somewhat against the
> various interesting points Danielle has raised regarding
> body worn technologies; i think I understood Danielle to be arguing almost
> for a magical/spiritual or metaphysical dimension
> of our beloved wearable technologies  ("Despite relatively little advance
> over the years artists, scientists and other researchers
> rather stubbornly continue to push in this area" --- yes, indeed, a
> strangely futile faith in the future, reminding me of
> the bizarre gestures of Cuando la fe mueve montañas.)
> I'd like to hear more about the magic of "bringing us back into contact
> with our most visceral freedoms"? and how you distributed it or how you
> incited interest
> in body worn technologies as learning tools?
>
>
> with regards
> Johannes Birringer
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Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
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-- 

Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420
Ithaca, NY  14853
Email:   <rtf9 at cornell.edu>
URL:  http://www.renateferro.net
      http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net
Lab:  http://www.tinkerfactory.net

Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space
http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empyre

Art Editor, diacritics
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dia/
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