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Susan Elizabeth Ryan

Susan Elizabeth Ryan

Category Archives: Wearable Tech

Beyond the Neoliberal Body: Data, Dress, and the Decline of Design

13 Saturday Jul 2019

Posted by faryan in New Ideas, Wearable Tech

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https://www.academia.edu/39810158/Beyond_the_Neoliberal_Body_Data_Dress_and_the_Decline_of_Design

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“Hyperdressing” essay published in Design Museum catalog

27 Monday Feb 2017

Posted by faryan in wearable ideas, Wearable Tech

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Fear 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.

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Wave Dress at BMFA #techstyle exhibition

13 Sunday Mar 2016

Posted by faryan in Wearable Tech

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Rather 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?

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@cutecircuit #wearabletech #global warming

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The Holy Dress

05 Saturday Mar 2016

Posted by faryan in Wearable Tech

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The 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.

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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.

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Garments of Paradise Reviewed in Textile History

21 Thursday Jan 2016

Posted by faryan in Garments of Paradise, Wearable Tech

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e-textiles, reviews, Wearable Tech

Review appeared back in November.  Textile History is an international, peer reviewed journal.

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Electric Heart by Suzi Webster @ ISEA

26 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by faryan in Events, Wearable Tech

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I was happy to see this wearable tech at in Vancouver. #ISEA2015

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Electric heart allows wearer to display & enjoy the heartbeat of a distant beloved.

Wish there had been more wearable tech at the conference.

Thanks Suzi!

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Meeting Kate Hartman’s Monarch

21 Friday Aug 2015

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At the Lively Objects Opening, Museum of Vancouver @ISEA2015

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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.

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Presenting my paper “Hyperdressing: Wearable Technology in the Time of Global Warming” at ISEA Vancouver

09 Sunday Aug 2015

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On Sunday I’ll be delivering a short version of the longer paper, found here

http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_38.pdf

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The True Cost of Fast Fashion–and Fashion Tech?

21 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by faryan in Wearable Tech

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

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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?

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Joanna Berzowska Talk at LSU in March

10 Friday Apr 2015

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Her talk: Quantified Threads: Future Fashion in the CloudUntitled-7

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Interview with Diffus Design about Wearable Technology Design Concepts

06 Tuesday Jan 2015

Posted by faryan in Wearable Tech

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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

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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/

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