Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures”
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 r...@cornell.edu wrote: Welcome! May 2011 on –empyre soft-skinned space “Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures” http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ Moderated by *Renate Ferro (US*) and *Tim Murray (US)* with guests: *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)* 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. 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. 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? 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. This months guests biographies are below: Week of May 4th *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. Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally through exhibitions and texts. Since 2002 she has been working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr. Tim Blackwell). She has been a principal investigator on projects involving new haptics technologies by bringing the sense of touch to the interface between people and machines (MIT) and generative software systems for creating and interpreting cultural artifacts, museums and the external environment. She is an associate researcher with Hexagram (Institute of Media, Arts and Technologies, subTELA Lab directed by Professor Barbara Layne, Montreal, Canada) on two projects, electronic textiles and new forms of 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. She has had numerous publications but most recently: '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*. *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
Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures”
Hi all, I thought I'd take this opportunity to remind all of our subscribers that the archives for almost ten years of empyre discussions can be accessed at https://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/ If there is a dialog box that pops up just accept and proceed. The archives are organized according to date, subject, etc. Hope that helps Danielle and the rest. All other information for empyre can be accessed by our website that is now hosted by the Cornell University Server http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ Renate On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:25 PM, danielle wilde d...@daniellewilde.com wrote: 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 r...@cornell.edu wrote: Welcome! May 2011 on –empyre soft-skinned space “Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures” http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ Moderated by *Renate Ferro (US*) and *Tim Murray (US)* with guests: *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)* 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. 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. 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? 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. This months guests biographies are below: Week of May 4th *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. Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally through exhibitions and texts. Since 2002 she has been working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr. Tim Blackwell). She has been a principal investigator on projects involving new haptics technologies by bringing the sense of touch to the interface between people and machines (MIT) and generative software systems for creating and interpreting cultural artifacts, museums and the external environment. She is an associate researcher with Hexagram (Institute of Media, Arts and Technologies, subTELA Lab directed by Professor Barbara Layne, Montreal, Canada) on two projects, electronic textiles and new forms of 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. She has had numerous publications
