[-empyre-] Week 4 of empyre: Wearable Technologies Welcome Danielle Wilde, Sarah Kettley and Lucy Dunne

[Renate Ferro]

It has been quiet this week on empyre and I'm hoping that most of you have
turned in your grades and finished your semester on this half of the
hemisphere at last.  I've been traveling the past few days so I'm a day
later in making introductions. I'm hoping that we can end this week and this
month's discussion assimilating some of month's threads and introducing new
ones.  In my travels I was thinking about the past few week's discussions
and my own physicality in relationship to technology and personal/public
space. I wear my DROID.  It is in my pocket or my hand or my satchel at all
times "attached." In fact this morning as I went to take my walk I slipped
my DROID in the front zippered pocket of a rain jacket and then when it got
warm just took the jacket off and wrapped the arms around my shoulders.   My
smart phone is a toggle to the networked world. Like Freud's nephew Hans and
the management of his mother's absence or presence,  I manage my networks of
friends and family, a virtual toggle.  For me wearable can be associative.
Does technology have to be actually embedded into a garment or can it just
be associatively connected.  Any thoughts about this?  Perhaps to extend
this conversation and others from last week I'll introduce our last set of
guests.  Welcome Daniel, Sarah, and Lucy. See their biographies below.


Also I'm hoping that our former guests *Janis Jefferies* (UK), *Valérie
Lamontagne*  (CA), *Ashley Ferro-Murray* (US), *Sabine Seymour* (US), *Susan
Elizabeth Ryan* (US) and those of you who have been following will add to
this weeks conversation on Wearable Technologies:  Cross-disciplinary
Ventures.


Week of May 24th



*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



*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.**



*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
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Cornell University
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