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Category Archives: Wearable Tech
“Hyperdressing” essay published in Design Museum catalog
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.
Wave Dress at BMFA #techstyle exhibition
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?
@cutecircuit #wearabletech #global warming
The Holy Dress
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.
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.
Garments of Paradise Reviewed in Textile History
Review appeared back in November. Textile History is an international, peer reviewed journal.
Ryan.GarmentsofParadise.TextileHistory.11.1.15
Electric Heart by Suzi Webster @ ISEA
I was happy to see this wearable tech at in Vancouver. #ISEA2015
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!
Meeting Kate Hartman’s Monarch
At 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.
Presenting my paper “Hyperdressing: Wearable Technology in the Time of Global Warming” at ISEA Vancouver
On Sunday I’ll be delivering a short version of the longer paper, found here
http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_38.pdf
The True Cost of Fast Fashion–and Fashion Tech?
Video 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?
Joanna Berzowska Talk at LSU in March
Her talk: Quantified Threads: Future Fashion in the Cloud
Interview with Diffus Design about Wearable Technology Design Concepts
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
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/
