[spectre] Fw: [foam] soft-wear:active materials symposium, BXL

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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>  soft-wear: Active Materials
>
>  Bite-size symposium  (25/26 October 2005)
>  Workshop (25-31 October 2005)
>  Open Lab (31 October 2005)
>
>  The era of garments, furniture and buildings designed as static and
>  predefined objects (with short expiration dates) is drawing to an end.
>  Fashion and architecture are on the verge of becoming dynamic,
>  semi-permeable membranes open to the diverse surroundings enveloping
the
>  human body. The Soft-wear symposium, workshop and open lab will offer
a
>  glimpse into the world of active materials that form the foundation of
>  these novel design paradigms. Soft-wear is a place where electronics
meets
>  the traditional crafts of weaving, dyeing and knitting fibres and
threads,
>  to produce materials that can respond to touch, temperature, light and
>  other external stimuli. They are used as tangible interfaces and
displays
>  for fashion, architecture, design, performance and other forms of
>  contemporary creative expression, where the edge between materials and
>  media rapidly dissolves.
>
>  ------------------------
>
>  Bite Size Symposium, 25 October 2005
>  where: 0kn0,
>  Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
>
>  when:
>  14.00 - 15.30 Joanna Berzowska
>  15.30 - 16.30 Rachel Wingfield
>  break
>  16.45 - 17.45 Carole Collet
>  17.45 - 18.45 Jenny Tillotson
>  18.45 - 19.45 Margot Jacobs
>
>  ------------------------
>
>  Bite Size Symposium, 26 October 2005
>  FoAM Lab,
>  Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
>
>  17.00 - 18.00 Maria Blaise
>  18.00 - 19.00 Sabine Seymour
>
>  -----------------------
>
>  Workshop, 25-31 October 2005 (fully booked)
>  FoAM Lab
>  Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
>
>  Workshop leaders: Joanna Berzowska and Rachel Wingfield
>  11.00 - 20.00 Technical tutorials, hands-on sessions, group
experiments
>
>  -----------------------
>
>  Open Lab, 31 October 2005
>  FoAM Lab,
>  Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium
>
>  17.00 - 20.00 Public experiments with active materials
>
>  + informal discussions with workshop participants...
>
>
>
>  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>  Bite-size symposium: Speakers' biographies (in alphabetical order)
>
>
>  *Joanna Berzowska* is an Assistant Professor of Design and Computation
>  Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work and research deal
>  primarily with "soft computation": electronic textiles, responsive
>  clothing as wearable technology, reactive materials and squishy
>  interfaces. She is the founder of XS Labs (Extra Soft) in Montreal,
where
>  her team develops electronic textile and reactive fashion projects
such as
>  Memory-Rich Garments. She is also the Director of the Interactive
Textiles
>  and Wearable Computers Axis at the Hexagram Institute. She was the
founder
>  in 2001 of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she
developed
>  the first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid,
an
>  addressable color-change textile. She received her Masters of Science
from
>  MIT for her work titled Computational Expressionism. She worked with
the
>  Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab on research projects such as
the
>  musicBottles. She directed Interface Design at the Institute for
>  Interactive Media at the University of Technology in Sydney. She holds
a
>  BA in Pure Mathematics and a BFA in Design Arts. Her art and design
work
>  has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, V&A in
London,
>  Millenium Museum in Beijing, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Art Directors Club in
NYC,
>  Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo and Ars Electronica
Center
>  in Linz among others. She has lectured about the intersections of art,
>  design, technology and computation at SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Banff New Media
>  Institute in Canada, and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy
among
>  others.
>
>
>  *Maria Blaisse*, orn and lives in Amsterdam. For the past 30 years
Maria
>  Blaisse has been at the forefront of research and education in
textiles
>  and flexible design. Using contemporary materials and processes, such
as
>  neoprene rubber, foam polyamides, vacuum moulding and lamination,
Blaisse
>  creates non-woven forms for the body that are poetic and deceptively
>  simple. Her collaborations with designers such as Issey Miyake and
costume
>  designs for theatre and dance companies have resulted in the creation
of
>  objects which not only change the appearance of the wearer, but adapt
to
>  the movements of the human body, while retaining a sculptural life of
>  their own. Blaisse's interests lay in the intersections between art
and
>  fashion, incorporating video, performance and photography, in an
>  exploration of sculptural performance with the body as a critical
element
>  in the animation of material form.
>
>
>  *Carole Collet* (MA) is Course Director, MA Textile Futures at Central
>  Saint Martins College.  Carole is a textile Designer and consultant in
the
>  area of textile print, R&D, trend forecasting, sustainable design, and
>  intelligent textiles.  Her consultancy work has included clients such
as
>  DMC, Boussac, Koji Tatsuno, Hoechst, Global consultants, Ian Ritchie
>  architects. Carole's current academic research 'Poetic Textiles For
>  SmartHomes' is a design quest which aims at developing innovative
textiles
>  for the domestic market. By investigating issues of aesthetics and
>  functions, the project aims at mapping out new possibilities for
textile
>  to take a leading role in redefining our intimate and emotional
>  relationship with 'smart homes'. The design process explores a
combination
>  of new technologies (intelligent textiles, new materials) together
with
>  more traditional and low tech methods of production to generate new
>  'hybrid' designs.  Sustainable values underpin
>  both the design process and the design outcomes. Recent exhibitions
>  include: 'Tactile Shadows', 'Touch Me'; exhibition at the V&A, June
2005:
>  a collection of textile designs which explores the emotional values of
>  tactility. 'Toile de Hackney', Surface Design Show, February 2005: a
>  collection of interactive domestic textiles which change colour in
>  response to movement. 'Remote Home', Science Museum, London 2003: an
>  interactive installation produced in collaboration with Tobi
Schneidler,
>  Smart Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden.
>
>
>  *Margot Jacobs* is an interaction design researcher exploring the
playful,
>  emotional and appropriate incorporation of technology in everyday
life,
>  developing innovative design methods and experimental prototypes for
>  social interventions in public space. Her current and upcoming work at
the
>  Interactive Institute, RE:FORM Studio is within the research platforms
>  'Static!' and 'Public Play Spaces'. Projects focus on energy
awareness,
>  open and sustainable systems, wearables and textiles, public
technology
>  platforms, and community expression. Her previous experience includes
a
>  year as research fellow at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea,
Italy.
>  Margot also holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from the
>  Georgia Institute of Technology and a master's degree from the
Interactive
>  Telecommunications Program in New York. Margot takes a great interest
in
>  reaching the public and other audiences. Outreach activities include
>  organizing local creative new media collective [fringe], lecturing,
>  tutoring postgraduate students, and creating Big Love, a gallery space
for
>  community expression.
>
>
>  *Sabine Seymour* concentrates on 'the next generation wearables'. She
>  introduced the course 'Fashionable Technology' at Parsons School of
Design
>  and is also an Adjunct Faculty at University of Art and Industrial
Design
>  in Linz/Austria. She co-curated the 'Wearable Experience'; section at
>  ISEA2004, recently published 'Intelligent Wearables', and presents for
>  instance at Ars Electronica and Cooper-Hewitt Summer Design Institute.
>  Moondial is the commercial entity that resulted from Sabine's research
and
>  concept works based now in Vienna with an outlet in NYC. Projects are
>  focusing on wearable/wireless technologies in sports, healthcare,
design
>  and branding. Her PhD deals with innovation and economics in
wearables.
>  She received a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU and a
>  Joint-Master's degree from the University of Economics (Vienna) and
>  Columbia's MBA program.Sabine floats between New York and Vienna and
is
>  intrigued by the tension the dual continent living is offering.
>
>
>  *Jenny Tillotson* is an artist and designer who invents clothes with
>  computerised scent-output systems for health and wellbeing. Her work
>  focuses on Scentsory Design®, concerning the relationship between
aromas
>  and emotional wellbeing. Jenny received her BA in Fashion
Communication
>  from Central Saint Martins and a PhD from the Royal College of Art.
>  Jenny's work has always had an element of fantasy as her ideas
originated
>  from her multisensory graduating book called 'WONDER', based on Alice
in
>  Wonderland, where she was unable to find a scent-output device for the
>  'SMELL ME' page. Her interest in healthcare applications began after
>  training to offer emotional support for people living with HIV and
AIDS.
>  She was searching for alternative methods to microencapsulation to
make
>  people feel confident, but also as a new medium to tell imaginative
>  stories. Jenny is a Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins,
Associate of
>  the British Society of Perfumers and Fellow of the Institute of
>  Nanotechnology. Prior to her academic work she was a stylist.  Jenny's
>  scientific partner is 'lab-on-a-chip' pioneer Professor Andreas Manz,
from
>  the Institute of Analytical Sciences, Germany. Although the olfactory
>  sense is dominated by the audiovisual senses, things are changing,
>  especially after recent scientific breakthroughs in olfactory
reception.
>  As an artist this
>  will give her much to play with in the future. Forthcoming projects
>  include 'Scent Fiction®', responsive environments and clothes
>  embedded with pheromones and electronic-nose sensors. Jenny has
exhibited
>  at SIGGRAPH, Tate Modern, e-Culture Fair, Cheltenham Science Festival,
>  NEMO, BNMI, Royal Society, WIRED-NextFest, V&A, Dana Centre, AVANTEX,
Feed
>  Festival, Stroom Den Haag and Brava Center for the Arts.
>
>
>  *Rachel Wingfield*, based in London, set up the company Loop.pH with
>  artist Mathias Gmachl to create and develop new and reactive surfaces
and
>  structures and has worked on architectural and fashion commissions to
>  product development. They conduct an extensive range of research
>  activities and collaborate with industry and multi-disciplinary
groups.
>  Rachel Wingfield is currently a Research Fellow at Central Saint
Martins
>  School of Fashion and Textiles where she is researching the role
interior
>  textiles and surfaces could play in energy efficiency, becoming active
and
>  self-sufficient as in the botanical world of plants. Rachel is also a
>  senior lecturer at London's Camberwell College of Arts, on the new BA
>  course, 3D Design: Materials and Critical Practice. Since graduating
from
>  the Royal College of Art in 2002 with an MPhil in Textiles Rachel's
work
>  has been recognized and exhibited internationally with the British
Council
>  and at events in Milan, Tokyo, Valencia, Stockholm and Moscow. She has
>  recently shown at the Design Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum
in
>  London, where Digital Dawn is now part of the permanent textile
>  collection. Rachel's research explores the language of pattern as
>  traditional interior surfaces become dynamic and animated as they
respond
>  to their environment with the use of the flat and printable light
source,
>  electroluminescence. Her work aims to capture the dynamic, rich
display of
>  botanical life into textiles with a continuing theme of growth and
>  biomimicry.
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>  Soft-wear: Active Materials is a part of the .x-med-k. series of
>  workshops, organised by Nadine, 0kn0 and FoAM.
>
>
>  http://fo.am/xmedk/
>
>
>  Supported by: de Vlaamse regering (Ministerie van Cultuur),  het
Vlaams
>  audiovisueel fonds (VAF), de Vlaamse gemeenschapscommissie (VGC)
>
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