*Welcome to Week 3 of our discussion on Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Venures. *
*I'd like to welcome Susan Elizabeth Ryan to our discussion this week. I'm hoping that our guests from weeks 1 and 2 will continue to write in as our discussion continues. Best Wishes to all of you who are ending your semester! Renate * * * *Welcome to **Susan Elizabeth Ryan* (US) Biography: Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Louisiana State University and Fellow of the LSU Center for Computational Technology (CCT). She teaches contemporary and new media art history and has helped found an interdisciplinary Art/Engineering undergraduate minor at LSU entitled AVATAR. Currently she is researching artists' wearable technology. With Patrick Lichty, she curated *Social Fabrics*, an exhibition sponsored by the Leonardo Educational Forum, for the College Art Association, Dallas 2008 ( http://www.socialfabrics.org/). She has lectured internationally on dress and creative technology, and contributed articles to *Leonardo *and the online journal *Intelligent Agent*. -- 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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