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. -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office #420 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: <r...@cornell.edu> 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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