Beyond the Neoliberal Body: Data, Dress, and the Decline of Design
13 Saturday Jul 2019
Posted New Ideas, Wearable Tech
in13 Saturday Jul 2019
Posted New Ideas, Wearable Tech
in27 Monday Feb 2017
Posted wearable ideas, Wearable Tech
inFear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World is the inaugural exhibition of the Design Museum, London, in its new quarters in High Street, Kensington. Curated by Justin McGuirk. Happy to join other authors’s works in this catalog. The exhibition closes April 23, 2017.
13 Sunday Mar 2016
Posted Wearable Tech
inRather than Hokusai’s The Great Wave–and more interesting–the dress conjures up Fukushima and the tsunami, 5 years ago last week. What’s the connection between advancing technology and rising waters?
@cutecircuit #wearabletech #global warming
05 Saturday Mar 2016
Posted Wearable Tech
inThe exhibition Coded Couture at Pratt Institute gallery in New York is a great exploration of what is becoming a bigger field–the thoughtful investigation and interrogation of what “wearable technology” is actually capable of. Melissa Coleman’s mind-blowing Holy Dress (with Joachim Rotteveel and Leoni Smelt) is a dress as a gilded cage that delivers a jolt–literally an electric shock–to its wearer based a process of creating narratives monitored by lie detector technology embedded in the piece. Wow. Pain and pleasure.
The electrical charge of this “overdress” creates little light flashes across the dress that my iPhone camera can’t capture. On the mannequin, a programmed array of flashes runs. We have to imagine the shocks.
21 Thursday Jan 2016
Posted Garments of Paradise, Wearable Tech
inTags
Review appeared back in November. Textile History is an international, peer reviewed journal.
Ryan.GarmentsofParadise.TextileHistory.11.1.15
26 Wednesday Aug 2015
Posted Events, Wearable Tech
in21 Friday Aug 2015
Posted Events, Wearable Tech
inAt the Lively Objects Opening, Museum of Vancouver @ISEA2015
It was worn by Boris Kourtoukov of the Social Body Lab http://socialbodylab.com
Monarch is a harness with wing-like shoulder enhancements that render the wearer more fearsome. The structures expand and contract in response to sensors on the arm reading muscle movement so they mimic a “fight or flight” posturing. It is an example of an expressive wearable that addresses human interactions and public display, not just (like so much wearable tech) online communication and consumption.
09 Sunday Aug 2015
Posted Events, Wearable Tech
inOn Sunday I’ll be delivering a short version of the longer paper, found here
http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_38.pdf
21 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted Wearable Tech
inVideo on fast fashion’s human and environmental costs. If link fails, search take part.com/true cost.
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?
10 Friday Apr 2015
Posted Events, Wearable Tech
in06 Tuesday Jan 2015
Posted Wearable Tech
inDiffus 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
17 Monday Nov 2014
Posted Garments of Paradise, Wearable Tech
inAn 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/