[-empyre-] Welcome to Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures”

[danielle wilde]

hi renate,
can you please advise how people new to the list can find this thread
(complete up to today)?
I have a colleague who wants to join but he would also like to access the
existing conversation.
many thanks
danielle

On 5 May 2011 11:37, Renate Ferro <rtf9 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Welcome!
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> May 2011 on –empyre soft-skinned space
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> “Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures”
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> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/
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> Moderated by *Renate Ferro (US*) and *Tim Murray (US)* with guests:
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> *Janis Jefferies* (UK), *Valérie Lamontagne*  (CA), *Ashley Ferro-Murray*(US),
> *Sabine Seymour* (US), *Susan Elizabeth Ryan* (US), *Danielle Wilde*(AU/FR),
> *Sarah Kettley (UK), **Lucy Dunne* (*US)*
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> During the month of May 2011, -empyre soft-skinned space will be featuring
> a discussion of wearable technologies, means through which technology
> augments or enables the body in interacting with the surrounding
> environment.  The integration of wearables that augment the body with
> technological capabilities permeate our diverse worlds from entertainment to
> the military.  During a recent episode of American Idol, singer Katy Perry
> wore a white body suit that flickered with pink LED lights to the beat of a
> song with Kanye West. Just a few days ago, during a US military secret
> mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, elite Navy Blue Seals wore special
> goggles that allowed them to see in low light conditions and helmets
> installed with video cams that beamed the capture and killing of Bin Laden
> in real time for the President of the United States and other onlookers in
> the White House Situation Room.
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> In the realms of art and technology, wearable technologies have
> proliferated while linking the areas of art, design, science and
> engineering. In the art and technology DIY world, the arduino and lilypad
> platforms and open source software have made these technologies more
> accessible. Embedded accelerometers within ubiquitous communication and
> computer hardware such as the i-phone, i-pod touch, and the i-pad among
> others have simplified the relationship between code and interactivity.
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> Some of the questions to be considered over the course of the next four
> weeks will include: How do wearable technologies enhance the body’s
> capabilities to interface with the environment as transmitters, receivers,
> enablers of data-in-the-world. How do the technologies of material protect
> the body upon harmful impact (fire, heat, microbes) or enhance more
> pleasurable sensation? What is the role of risk in relation to the failure
> of design or delivery?  What are the relationships between the practical
> aspects of use and the aesthetic concerns of design? How do we understand
> wearable technology in relation to the excesses of commodified culture?
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> While some of our guests will discuss interface design and practice we will
> also encourage others to theorize about interventions between technology,
> the body, and architecture.
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> This months guests biographies are below:
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> Week of May 4th
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> *Janis Jefferies* (UK) is an artist, writer and curator, Professor of
> Visual Arts at the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London,
> Academic director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in
> Textiles and Artistic Director of Centre for Creative and Social
> Technologies and Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
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> Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of
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> contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally
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> through exhibitions and texts. Since 2002 she has been working on
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> technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr. Tim Blackwell).
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> She has been a principal investigator on projects involving new haptics
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> technologies by bringing the sense of touch to the interface between
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> people and machines (MIT)  and generative software systems for creating
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> and interpreting cultural artifacts, museums and the external environment.
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> She is an associate researcher with Hexagram (Institute of Media, Arts and
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> Technologies, subTELA Lab directed by Professor Barbara Layne,
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> Montreal, Canada) on two projects, electronic textiles and new forms of
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> media communication in cloth. Wearable Absence was launched in Montreal in
> June 2010 and shown as part of the Science Festival in Edinburgh, April
> 2011.
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> She has had numerous publications but most recently:
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> 'Loving Attention: An outburst of craft in contemporary art' in *Extra/ordinary:
> Craft Culture and Contemporary Art*, (2011) and ‘One and Another: a
> Handshake with the Ancestors’ in *The Shape of Thing* and ‘The Artist as
> Researcher in a Computer Mediated Culture’, in *Art Practices in a Digital
> Culture*.
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> *Valérie Lamontagne* (CA) is a digital media designer-artist, theorist and
> curator researching techno-artistic frameworks that combine human/nonhuman
> agencies. Looking at the rich practice of performance art, social
> intervention and interactive installations – she is invested in developing
> responsive objects (specifically wearables) and interactive media scenarios
> which interlope the public-at-large, the environment and matter as
> “performer”.
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> She is the Founder and Director of 3lectromode, a design group invested in
> developing wearables that combine D-I-Y technology with current fashion
> research. Her work has been showcased in festivals, galleries and museums
> across Canada, the United States, Central and South America and Europe. She
> holds an B.F.A. and M.F.A. in visual arts and is presently a Ph.D. candidate
> at Concordia University investigating “Performativity, Materiality and
> Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables” where she teaches in the
> Department of Design & Computation Arts.
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> Week of May11th
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> *Ashley Ferro-Murray* (US) is a choreographer who uses process-based and
> improvisatory movement structures to interrogate emergent technology in
> performance and installation. Past works include wearable sensors, digital
> animation software, 16mm film technology, and various mechanical apparati.
> Without assuming the political potential of technology or the interactive
> capabilities of digital media in performance, Ferro-Murray takes both a
> historical and experimental approach to building choreographies that
> encourage active viewing environments in which media is installed to
> instigate subversive energy. Both her artistic and scholarly work revolves
> around the histories of and future possibilities for experimental dance,
> installation art, and tactical media. Ferro-Murray is a PHD candidate in the
> Graduate Program in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in new
> media at the University of California, Berkeley.
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> *Sabine Seymour* (US)  May  9th, 15th -17th
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> Dr. Sabine Seymour focuses on fashionable technology and the intertwining
> of aesthetics and function in design and technology. She is described as
> being an innovator, visionary, and trend spotter in her work as researcher,
> conceptual designer, economist, professor, and entrepreneur. She is the
> Chief Creative Officer of her company Moondial, which develops fashionable
> wearables and consults on fashionable technology to companies worldwide.
> Moondial’s work is based on the convergence of fashion, design, science and
> wearable & wireless technologies.
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> Dr. Seymour is Assistant Professor of Fashionable Technology and the
> director of Fashionable Technology Lab at Parsons The New School for Design
> in New York and lectures worldwide at numerous institutions. Additionally
> Dr. Seymour serves as a jury member for many internationally renowned
> institutions and conferences. She recently was the design co-chair for the
> ISWC2009 and a jury-member for the Prix Ars Electronica 2009. She frequently
> presents and exhibits for instance at Ars Electronica Festival, Cooper
> Hewitt National Design Museum, and Smart Textiles. She has received numerous
> grants and awards and was awarded the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart
> Design Fellowship in 2010. Dr. Seymour is an editorial review board member
> for the International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction and is
> widely published. Her recent books ‘Fashionable Technology – The
> Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology’ and ‘Functional
> Aesthetics – Visions in Fashionable Technology’ have received excellent
> reviews.
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> She received a PhD and MSc in Social and Economic Sciences from the
> University of Economics in Vienna and Columbia University in New York and an
> MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts in
> New York.
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> Week of May 17th
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> *Susan Elizabeth Ryan* (US)
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> faryan at lsu.edu
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> Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Louisiana State
> University and Fellow of the LSU Center for Computational Technology (CCT).
> She teaches contemporary and new media art history and has helped found an
> interdisciplinary Art/Engineering undergraduate minor at LSU entitled
> AVATAR.  Currently she is researching artists' wearable technology.  With
> Patrick Lichty, she curated *Social Fabrics*, an exhibition sponsored by
> the Leonardo Educational Forum, for the College Art Association, Dallas 2008
> (http://www.socialfabrics.org/). She has lectured internationally on dress
> and creative technology, and contributed articles to *Leonardo *and the
> online journal *Intelligent Agent*.
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> Week of May 24th
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> *Danielle Wilde* (AU/FR) thinks, writes, moves and makes to understand how
> technology might be paired with the body to poeticise
> experience. Her research sits at the nexus of performance, fine art, costume
> design, critical (technology) and interaction design. She has a particular
> interest in the democratizing value of clumsiness. In 2010 she was visiting
> research scholar at Tokyo University's Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory. In 2011
> she will complete a PhD titled Swing That Thing: Moving to Move, on the
> poetics of embodied interaction. She is currently based in Melbourne, at
> Monash University (Fine Art) and CSIRO (Materials Sciences and Engineering).
> www.daniellewilde.com
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> *Sarah Kettley (UK) *is a Senior Lecturer in Product Design at Nottingham
> Trent University, and works with product designers and textile artists to
> investigate creative processes of engagement with smart materials. She is a
> contemporary jeweler with a PhD in Craft as a methodology for the
> development of Wearable technology and conducts research in craft and design
> theory, embodied interaction, physical computing, and the issues involved in
> supporting interdisciplinary creative practice.**
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> *Lucy Dunne* (*US)*  is an Assistant Professor in the department of
> Design, Housing and Apparel at the University of Minnesota. She holds B.S.
> and M.A. degrees from Cornell University in Apparel Design, and a PhD in
> Computer Science from University College Dublin. Her research focuses on
> wearable technology and smart clothing, and lies at the intersection of
> electronic technology and apparel design. Current areas of focus include
> navigating the comfort/accuracy tradeoff in garment-integrated body sensing,
> novel sensor- and actuator-based interfaces, new media in fashion design,
> and wardrobe management through ubiquitous computing.
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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>
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