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. -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <[email protected]> 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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