The True Cost of Fast Fashion–and Fashion Tech?

21 Sunday Jun 2015

Video on fast fashion’s human and environmental costs. If link fails, search take part.com/true cost.

http://www.takepart.com/true-cost?cmpid=tpsales-eileenfisher&spMailingID=11930034&spUserID=ODI5NjIwOTQ3NTUS1&spJobID=503994677&spReportId=NTAzOTk0Njc3S0

Environmental concerns: if we add the toxic flows from fast fashion to the ones from all our tech fashion (thrown away devices etc), what does that add up to?

ISEA 2015 Conference in Vancouver

02 Tuesday Jun 2015

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http://isea2015.org/

Theme: Disruption

Joanna Berzowska Talk at LSU in March

10 Friday Apr 2015

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Her talk: Quantified Threads: Future Fashion in the Cloud

Garments of Paradise at the MIT Press booth at CAA

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York

Wearable Technology: A Ghost Story

08 Thursday Jan 2015

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Video from Eyebeam Panel at the New School, Oct. 27, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_eso0j4tBk

Talk on New Media Art and the Art World

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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I’ll be part of the Leonardo Panel “Navigating the Digital Divide” at 5:30 PM Thursday, February 12 at the Hilton in New York, Part of the College Art Association Annual Meeting.

See description of the panel at:

http://conference.collegeart.org/programs/leonardo-education-and-art-forum-navigating-the-digital-divide/

Interview with Diffus Design about Wearable Technology Design Concepts

06 Tuesday Jan 2015

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Diffus Design–Michel Guglielmi and Hanne-Louise Johannsen, is based in Copenhagen. It concerns itself with bringing together technology and traditional crafts.

Interview can be found here: https://www.academia.edu/10033103/Interview_with_Diffus_Design_Michel_Guglielmi_and_Hanne-Louise_Johannsen

Read about their Design Strategies here:

http://www.diffus.dk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/Diffus%20strategies%202013.pdf

Wearable Discourses: Susan Elizabeth Ryan Interviewed by Rebecca Louise Breuer and Geert Lovink

17 Monday Nov 2014

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An interview regarding Garments of Paradise will appear in the British journal Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty and is being pre-released on the Institute of Network Cultures and Nettime websites.

See

http://networkcultures.org/geert/2014/11/17/wearable-discourses-interview-with-susan-e-ryan/