[-empyre-] Week 2 on empyre: Welcome to Sabine Seymour and Ashley Ferro-Murray

[Renate Ferro]

We got off to a rather late start this month on -empyre's discussion
Wearable Technologies:  Cross-disciplinary Ventures
but we are introducing Week's 2 guests tonight.  An invitation to last
week's guests Valerie and Janis to join in our discussion this week if
their schedules permit. A warm welcome to Ashley Ferro-Murray who has been a
guest on empyre previously during our discussion on
Critical Movement Practice a couple of years ago.  Sabine is a new
subscriber to empyre and we are looking forward to her participation.
Looking forward to both Ashley and Sabine joining to extend our discussion
throughout the week.

Thanks.  Renate Ferro

Introducing:

*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.



*Sabine Seymour* (US)  May  9th, 15th -17th

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.

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.

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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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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