Fashionable Technology Research Consortium

FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY REPORT March 2009

BOOK PRESENTATION & SYMPOSIA ::: FASHION IN CONTEXT (in German)
March 26 - 27, 2009
Schloss Hetzendorf
Vienna, Austria
In den Medien unbetextete Mode wird nicht gekauft, Mode ohne Label nicht wahrgenommen, Mode, die nichts aussagt ist fad, ebenso wie eine Kollektion, die keine Geschichte erzählen kann. Der Begriff fashionized bezeichnet die Visualisierung einer neuen Mode – ist quasi grafische Geburtshilfe und Transformation. Im Keynote von Gerda Buxbaum geht es um Begrifflichkeiten und darum, wie Kleidungsstücke zu einer Botschaft werden. Sabine Seymour's Vortrag behandelt: Der Einsatz von Bekleidung als interaktive Fläche eröffnet eine Reihe neuer Anwendungen. Neue Entwicklungen im Bereich interaktiver und tragbarer Bekleidungsöberflächen (Text und Bilder) verwenden Datenquellen wie beispielsweise Sensoren und Mobiltelefone. Sabine Seymour gibt einen Einblick in Projekte, Materialien und Inspirationen zu Fashionable Technology, deren Fokus die Oberfläche der Kleidung darstellt.
http://www.modeschulewien.at/web/archiv/10-hetzendorf-gespr.html

CALL FOR PAPERS ::: ISWC'09
September 4-7, 2009
Linz, Austria
SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Papers & Posters (March 30, 2009), Late Breaking (May 18, 2009), Design Contest (May 18, 2009)
ISWC'09, the thirteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC'09 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC'09 explicitly aims to broaden its scope to include cell phones and cell phone applications as they have become the most successful wearable computer to date.
http://www.iswc.net

CONFERENCE ::: SCIENCE BEYOND FICTION: THE EUROPEAN FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE
April 21 - 23, 2009
Prague, The Czech Republic
CIANT will run a conference session at SCIENCE BEYOND FICTION: THE EUROPEAN FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE on Wednesday, April 22, 2-3.30 PM with accepted title "Bridging the Gap between Brain and Machine: New Challenge for Art and Science”. We will discuss state-of-the-art and future of BMI (brain-machine interface) technology.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/fet/2009

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ::: SUPER HUMAN: REVOLUTION OF SPECIES SYMPOSIUM
November 23 - 14, 2009
Melbourne, Australia
DEADLINE: March 30, 2009
Inspired by the 150th publication anniversary of Darwin's evolutionary treatise, 'On the Origin of the Species', ANAT presents the Super Human: Revolution of the Species Symposium. A single-stream high calibre event, the Symposium turns the spotlight on contemporary art and science collaborative research and practice and its interpretations of - and impacts upon - the human body now and into the future. The Symposium is open to any format or style of presentation so long as it directly engages with one or more of the Symposium themes: Augmentation, Cognition, Nanoscale Interventions.
http://www.superhuman.org.au

CALL FOR COLLABORATORS ::: INTERACTIVOS?' LIMA'09: MAGIC AND TECHNOLOGY
April 13 - 28, 2009
Escuelab
Lima, Peru
DEADLINE FOR COLLABORATORS: April 7, 2009
Open call for collaborators for the INTERACTIVOS? LIMA'09: Magic and technology advanced project development workshop (Lima, April 13 - 28, 2009). The aim is to build software pieces and interactive installations which propose a rethinking of the usual scenario in magic tricks. Collaborators can join any of the developing teams that will carry out the selected proposals, depending on their particular interests and skills, thus contributing with their knowledge and skills and at the same time learning from the other group members and from the leading tutors (Julian Oliver, Clara Boj, Diego Díaz, and Kiko Mayorga). Collaborators' profile: artists, magicians, engineers, musicians, programmers, designers, architects, hackers, psychologists, or any other person interested in presenting a project on this topic.
http://www.medialab-prado.es
http://www.ccelima.org

EXHIBITION ::: CORPUS EXTREMUS (LIFE+)
February 28 – April 18, 2009
EXIT ART 475 10th Ave @ 36th Street NYC ph: 212-966-7745
Prior to the eighteenth century, art and science were not separated as distinct disciplines, and were often joined. Thus a hybrid bio-art discipline is nothing radically new. Yet, the work in Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) represents a revolution in interdisciplinary research and practices and offers a critical evaluation of science and technology through art. This direct involvement of artists in scientific research and lab practices aims to demystify science through a cross-disciplinary approach; to provoke discussion about art and science as creative stimuli to each other; and to pose ethical questions to society.
The artworks in this exhibition deal with the transformation of our notions of life and death due to the implementation of biotechnological advances in everyday life. Recent innovations in science and technology are causing us to confront and challenge our conventional understanding of the body. Trying to reveal “the secret of life,” and to retain health, we are finding new ways to create living transplants and sustain life outside of the body. This possibility gives ground for the design of new organisms – hybrids, cyborgs and extended human bodies – that might be a new stage in an evolution with a questionable future.
http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/corpus_extremus/index.html

CALL FOR PAPERS ::: 3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MIUX'09
Internet access on mobile devices changes the way the Internet is used. In addition to accessing ordinary Internet content with mobile devices, mobilizing the Internet enables totally new kinds of Internet content and services. This workshop will discuss the latest user study results and developments of mobile Internet from the end user perspective, identifying solutions that make Internet usage on a mobile device an enjoyable experience. Mobile Internet solutions cover Internet services specifically designed for mobile use, mobile access to full Web sites, full Web sites and mobile services complementing each other, Web feeds, Web widgets, and Internet based communication systems (e.g. email, instant messaging, VoIP).
http://wiki.research.nokia.com/index.php/MIUX09

FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY REPORT November 2008

MOONDIAL FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY REPORT
Visionary Insights on Epidermis & Technology
by Sabine Seymour
November 2008

MOONDIAL FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY NEWS ::: LECTURE AT DESIGNFORUM VORARLBERG
Sabine Seymour's lecture "Fashionable Technology, Ein Chip zum Anziehen" highlighted the opening of the Designforum Vorarlberg in Dornbirn, Austria on October 23, 2008.
http://www.prisma-zentrum.com/start.php4?m1id=3&m2id=87&m3id=0&m4id=0
http://www.designforum.at

LECTURE ::: LUCY ORTA, BODY ARCHITECTURE
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 6pm
School of Constructed Environments
Glass Corner, 2nd Floor
25 East 14th Street, New York, USA
Trained as a fashion designer but working as an artist since the beginning of the 90’s, Ms. Orta has realized what she called “architectures with soul.” They are objects that respond to a critical and constructive gaze on the most sensitive areas of society, evoking the need for change, poetically prefiguring reality and suggesting alternative life styles. She has produced numerous interventions and actions, putting on stage crucial themes of the contemporary world: community, social exclusion, dwelling, mobility, sustainable development and recycling.
http://www.studio-orta.com/

CALL FOR SPEAKERS ::: AVANTEX SYMPOSIUM: FASHION
Applications are open for Fashion curated by Sharon Baurley. Please refer to the Fashionable Technology Report when applying.
June 16 - 17, 2008
Frankfurt, Germany
The latest developments and trends in new and innovative apparel textiles not only enhance their properties and, in turn, the application areas for the apparel but also facilitate new kinds of apparel. This is associated with an increased demand for information and communication. The Avantex Symposium is not only an opportunity for this but also a chance to engage in cross-sector discussions.
This year, four main themes are planned:
1. Fashion: modern materials and technologies in fashion
2. Material + Technology in apparel: advances in the areas of fibres, textiles, technology and processing
3. Sports + Outdoor: performance and lifestyle
4. Portable technologies / E-textiles: textile-based, portable electronic systems, sensors and controllers
The lectures will be taking place on 16 - 17 June 2009 (afternoons only) at the Messe Frankfurt Congress Center.
Anyone wishing to take part as a symposium speaker, is now cordially invited to apply.
http://techtextil.messefrankfurt.com/frankfurt/en/symposium_coc_symposien.html

EXHIBITION ::: SPECIMEN: RESPRESENTING THE NATURAL WORLD
November 6, 2008 - January 29, 2009
Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, Newark, New Jersey, USA
In the 19th century a thirst for information about the natural world was rampant among the general populace, from dedicated scientists to avid amateurs. This exhibition addresses the pervasive influence of ‘natural history’ inspired aesthetics and methodologies on contemporary artists. In this exhibition, contemporary artworks will be displayed alongside historic works, on loan from the Newark Public Library and private collections.
Artists: Catherine Chalmers, Keith Cottingham, Dorothy Cross, Julie Dermansky, Jordan Eagles, Seth Goodwin, Damien Hirst, Mike Libby, Laura McClanahan, Julia Randall, Christopher Russell, Laura Splan, Kimberly Witham, Dustin Yellin
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/artgallery/current/index.html

CALL FOR ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROPOSALS ::: V2_LAB SOFT TECHNOLOGY
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: December 7, 2008
V2_Lab, the artistic Research & Development (aRt&D) department of V2_ Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has a vacancy for a three-month artist’s residency from January 15 to April 15, 2009.
V2_Lab has an extensive history in the field of wearable technology. In recent years, we have carried out various aRt&D projects in collaboration with various artists and universities. For example, we developed soft, wearable interactive objects with Thecla Schiphorst during Soft(n). We recently took these developments further in the direction of fashion and wearable technology with Di Mainstone’s Sharewear. In these projects, we combine knowledge from various domains to produce surprising or critical artistic statements. V2_ is seeking to further investigate the combination of fashion and technology by means of an experimental residency. The goal of the residency is the research and development part of the residency will focus on the development of flexible, textile-integrated circuit boards and electronic components, manufactured from easily accessible materials. We wish to involve the artist in this research at the earliest possible stage, so that the accumulated knowledge will remain easily transferable. This residency is also geared toward achieving a satisfying end result in the form of a visually attractive working prototype.
To download your application form please follow this link: http://files.v2.nl/portal/Applicationform_AIR.rtf
http://www.v2.nl

WORKSHOP ::: WIRELESS WEARABLES
Sunday, December 14, 2008 @ 2 - 6pm
Location: NYCResistor (www.nycresistor.com), Brooklyn, NY, USA
Instructors: Kate Hartman and Rob Faludi
Cost: $150
Get ready to explore the delights of mutual connectivity with the soon-to-be released XBee LilyPad! This class will introduce the communication and construction techniques necessary to create wireless wearables. We'll start by learning how to communicate using XBee radios, including digital, analog, input and output modes along with an overview of other useful features. Once we've made contact, we'll translate our circuits onto fabric, learning how to make flexible, durable, and attractive connections between components using conductive textiles and threads. By the end of the class, we'll have our soft circuits conversing wirelessly and you'll be ready to create your own clothing, toy or tapestry that talks!The price of this class includes a $50 materials fee, which covers a LilyPad XBee board, XBee radio, battery pack, conductive fabric & thread, and various sewing supplies. When the class is over, the circuit you've created will be yours to keep!
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/202648126

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CHI 2009 WORKSHOPS ::: PROGRAMMING REALITY: From Transitive Materials to Organic User Interfaces
Submission is still open. Please refer to the Fashionable Technology Report when applying.
Workshop date: April 4 - 5, 2009
Boston, MA, USA
Over the past few years, a quiet revolution has been redefining our fundamental computing technologies. Flexible E-Ink and OLEDs displays, shape-changing and light-emitting materials, parametric design, e- textiles, sensor networks, and intelligent interfaces promise to spawn entirely new user experiences that will redefine our relation with technology. In one example, future flexible displays will allow us to design devices that are completely flexible, and that can curve around everyday objects or our bodies. These and other developments are opening up unprecedented opportunities for innovation and require us to re-examine and re- evaluate some of the most basic user interface design principles. This workshop invites researchers and practitioners to imagine and debate this future, as well as prototype next-generation interfaces. We will explore two converging themes. Transitive Materials will focus on how emerging materials and computationally-driven behaviors can operate in unison blurring the boundaries between form and function, human body  andenvironment, structures and membranes, while supporting the design of computational systems that are intrinsically capable of  interactivity and personalization. Organic User Interfaces (OUI) will explore future interactive designs and applications as these materials become   commonplace. The OUI vision is based on an understanding that in the future the  physical shape of display devices will become non-flat, potentially arbitrary and even fluid or computationally controlled. This allows display devices and entire environments to take on shapes that are 3D, flexible, dynamic, modifiable by users or self-actuated.
Submissions and enquiries: programmingreality@media.mit.edu
http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Workshops/cfp121.pdf

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ::: CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences
Binational Festival / Austria - Japan 2009
Festival Austria (Vienna): May 27 - 31, 2009
Festival Japan (Yokohama): October 14 - 18, 2009
The team of 5uper.net (www.5uper.net) is happy to announce the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the binational festival »CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences«, which is taking place in Austria and Japan in the year 2009 (Austria - Japan Year 2009). The second edition of CODED CULTURES (first edition online at: http://codedcultures.5uper.net) is exploring new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related art, focusing on Japan and Europe. The festival »CODED CULTURES – Exploring Creative Emergences« addresses questions regarding the codes of creative cultures and artistic practices, which are based on new transdisciplinary and hybrid developments of culture and art under the conditions of a post-contemporary digital media-age and transformations of related artistic developments. Therefore, the festival creates a surrounding in which new ways of emerging arts, creativity, theories, projects and ideas can be explored in the field of digital media related forms of creative delineation and arts. The particular aim is to present, discuss and criticize topics, which are situated on the intersection of disciplines and activities in order to enforce new potentials of artistic practices and positions. By these means, persons from the field of digital media related art and culture, who derive joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations are welcome to submit their works, projects, theories and ideas. Regarding this, CODED CULTURES is mainly searching for projects, which shape new vectors of creation and art, situated between: e.g. Science & Art, Technology & Art, Design & Art, Fashion & Art, Economy & Art, a.s.o.
http://www.codedcultures.net

NEWSLETTER ::: LUMINAPOLIS
Luminapolis is the portal of Light for all working with lighting: architects, designers, artists. We publish your lighting-news. Luminapolis prepares the Luminale 2010 - Lighting Culture Biennale.
http://www.luminapolis.com/?langswitch_lang=en

DISCUSSION ::: NANOART: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the  November discussion on the Synapse elist which, throughout 2008, is investigating the  leading-edge of art and science research collaboration. This month's discussion explores artists' engagement with nanotechnologies. As well as an exploration of artistic projects, the list will investigate some of the pressing issues arising from the proliferation of nanoscale technologies - for example, implications of the inability to control affect at the nano level and the peculiar challenges facing artists working with these technologies, not least the 'invisibility' of their practice both literally and figuratively.
To join the discussion visit:
http://www.synapse.net.au select 'Discuss' and follow the prompts.

CONFERENCE ::: IFAI ADVANCED TEXTILES '09
A European-US Entrepreneur Networking Conference
Brussel, Belgium
April 2 - 3, 2009
Attend the second IFAI Advanced Textiles Conference 2009, where market-ready innovations and new technologies in the technical textiles field with be unveiled. This high-level gathering of industry experts and government officials is designed to provide a valuable educational and networking opportunity for participants, creating new business opportunities between U.S. and European companies.
Conference sessions and discussions will focus on key advanced textile application areas such as:
Architecture, Sports apparel, Protective fabrics, Medical textiles
http://www.ifai.com

CALL FOR PROPOSALS ::: O'REILLY EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
March 9 - 12, 2009
The Fairmont San Jose
San Jose, CA, USA
The spirit of ETech is fueled by honing in on the ideas, projects, and technologies that the alpha geeks are thinking about, hacking on, and inventing right now, creating a space for all participants to connect and be inspired. ETech 2009 promises to be another rich and cutting edge event, looking this time at technology is reinventing the way we live. The constrained world has to make do with what's available. Why scrimp and sacrifice for a computer when most people have mobile phones with an SMS server that can do the job just fine? With limited food, water, fuel, medicine, it's the people and their ideas that are often the cheapest part of the equation. Their technology looks to collaboration and connection with fewer resources—almost the opposite of the industrialized world which seeks to make each individual as effective as possible.What technologies cross the divide? How do the two interact and cross-pollinate? On the surface, they wouldn't seem to overlap, but on deeper examination, inhabitants of both worlds learn from each other constantly. Here are some areas at the intersection of abundance and constraint we'll be exploring at the 2009 edition of ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:
City Tech
Materials & Mechanics
Personalized Healthcare
Mobile & The Web
Geek Family
Synthetic Biology
Nomadism & Shedworking
Sustainable Life
Life Hacking & Information Overload
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech

Helmut Lang, Alles Gleich Schwer

Helmut Lang, Installation detail, 2008

HELMUT LANG
Alles Gleich Schwer
August 31 through November 2, 2008
kestnergesellschaft, Goseriede 11, 30159 Hanover, Germany

The kestnergesellschaft presents helmut lang – alles gleich schwer, the first institutional solo exhibition of artistic work by Helmut Lang, one of the most prominent and influential cultural figures of our time. Lang’s most recent body of work marks the logical conclusion to a constantly rearranging equation. Turning away from the physical body and its social articulation through clothes, Lang has created a series of objects that address the intersection of public and private experience as it is recorded through mythologies both personal and shared.

“The continuity is that I’m expressing what’s important to me with the appropriate form, content and context through different mediums and other dimensions.” HL

A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with texts by Veit Gorner, Jenny Holzer, Frank-Thorsten Moll, Ulf Poschardt, Alice Rawsthorn, Gisela Vetter-Liebenow, Neville Wakefield and Christian Wulff.

Curated by Frank Thorsten Moll and Neville Wakefield

http://www.absolut.com/helmutlang
September 30 through December 31, 2008

via e-flux

The Cloud

I hope to see this in person soon and congratulations to those folks at MIT who never told me they are involved ;-) From the description of the project:

The Cloud is an organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Constructed of carbon glass, spanning over four meters, and containing more than 65 kilometers of fiber optics, the Cloud encourages visitors to touch and interact with information in new ways, manifesting emotions and behavior through sound and a dichotomy of luminescence and darkness.

Located in downtown Florence outside the Fortezza da Basso. The Cloud is part of the “Redesigning Fashion Trade Shows” project that Pitti Immagine launched with MIT Mobile Experience Lab in January 2007. It is a long-term project that will creatively rethink the trade show concept and will propose innovative technologies, perspectives and sensory experiences for fashion trade shows.

Thanks to Hector Ouilhet!

Video by Cool Hunting

Cool Hunting created an inspiring video documentary of the projects that were exhibited during the launch of my book Fashionable Technology at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York on May 22, 2008.

The video made it to most viewed on YouTube Science & Technology!

Thanks to Josh, Ami, Seth, Tim!

The House of Viktor & Rolf @ Barbican

The House of Viktor & Rolf
Dutch fashion design arrives at the Barbican
June 18, 2008 - September 21, 2008
Barbican Art Gallery
London, UK

The Barbican is one of my London fixtures.

The House of Viktor & Rolf presents each of the designer’s signature pieces from 1992 to now, shown in a specially commissioned and characteristically theatrical installation that dominates the entire Gallery. Highlights include pieces from Atomic Bomb, 1998–99, featuring dramatic mushroom cloud-like cushioned necklines and Russian Doll, 1999–2000, in which a single model was painstakingly dressed by Viktor & Rolf until she was gasping under 70 kilogrammes of exquisite haute couture. For the collection Bells, 2000-2001, models emerged from a smoke-filled space in clothes embroidered with hundreds of brass bells, so they were heard before they could be seen. Drawing on the Dutch tradition of silver plating a baby’s first shoe as a keepsake, the climax of Viktor & Rolf’s Autumn/Winter collection of 2006–07, was a strapless wedding dress with a wide petticoated knee length skirt, silver plated, including even the bride’s bouquet.

Buy the book The House of Viktor and Rolf by Caroline Evans and Susannha Frankel

Via Flavorpill London

Superheros: Fashion and Fantasy @ MET Museum

Superheros: Fashion and Fantasy
MET Museum, New York
May 7, 2008 – September 1, 2008
Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor

Find the time to see this inspiring exhibition at the fabulous MET. I overheard a conversation by a young man who would love to own the Catwoman outfit worn by Michelle Pfeiffer . And there are many other outrageous creations by the likes of Beirendonck, Mugler, Willhelm, and Chalayan.

Since the first appearance of Superman in 1938, the superhero has exercised a powerful influence over our collective imagination, serving as avatars or conduits for our hopes, dreams, and desires. Until relatively recently, when they were co-opted by high art, superheroes have often been dismissed as frivolous and superficial, but their apparent triviality is the very thing that gives them the ability to address serious issues. Like Clark Kent’s nerdiness or Bruce Wayne’s playboy disaffection, the subterfuge frees superheroes to respond to and comment upon shifting attitudes toward self and society, toward identity and ideology.

Through the years, the superhero has been used to embody—through metaphor—our social and political realities. At the same time, it has been used to represent concepts reflective of sexuality and corporeality through idealized, objectified, and hyperbolic visualizations of the human body. Constantly redefined and reworked according to popular canons of beauty, superheroes embody the superlative.

Fashion not only shares the superhero’s metaphoric malleability, but actually embraces and responds to the particular metaphors that the superhero represents, notably that of the power of transformation. Fashion celebrates metamorphosis, providing unlimited opportunities to remake and reshape the flesh and the self. Through fashion and the superhero, we gain the freedom to fantasize, to escape the banal, the ordinary, and the quotidian. The fashionable body and the superhero body are sites upon which we can project our fantasies, offering a virtuosic transcendence beyond the moribund and utilitarian.

MOMA Exhibition: Design and the Elastic Mind

Design and the Elastic Mind @ MOMA
runs until May 12, 2008
New York, USA

If you can make it to the show I  suggest you do. Otherwise I strongly recommend the online exhibition. The likes of James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau (featured in my book) are presented. The exhibition is organized by Paola Antonelli, Curator, and Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design's most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change. Designers have coped with these displacements by contributing thoughtful concepts that can provide guidance and ease as science and technology evolve. Several of them—the Mosaic graphic user's interface for the Internet, for instance—have truly changed the world. Design and the Elastic Mind is a survey of the latest developments in the field. It focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use.

The exhibition will highlight examples of successful translation of disruptive innovation, examples based on ongoing research, as well as reflections on the future responsibilities of design. Of particular interest will be the exploration of the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale. The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Isabel Haase - Fashion & Art & Technology

Munich-based Austrian Isabel Haase creates objects, installations, photos. The reference and subtle critique of fashion in Beauties intrigued me and made me curious. Klimator with its use of  technology can easily be regarding as a piece of Fashionable Technology. Lucy Orta seems to have been an inspiration. Kouji Hikawa uses climate in many in his projects.

KLIMATOR (2003/07)
Protective suit, fan, two batteries, charger, straps, headgear

In the case of sudden climate change, there is a protective suit. Where there is strong sunlight and increased warmth outdoors, this light and comfortable suit can be quickly unfolded and put on.  A  small fan is attached to the body of the user with straps and is carried like a backpack.  The device blows air into the suit constantly. The circulating air cools the body.  The fan can be easily switched on or off with a switch on the sleeve.  The headgear offers protection from the sun with a visor protecting the user's face.  The surplus air escapes from openings in the sleeves, the trousers and the collar. A charged battery will last several hours.  A second charge should be carried as well.

BEAUTIES (2006)
Photo

An attractive young lady, wearing a classic „little black dress“, sits in a white lounge in the evening. She is relaxed and sips a whiskey. She appears to be waiting for someone, but, she could also be the subject of a fashion shoot.  She is wearing extremely high pumps in black.  The high heels are pushing her feet forward at such an angle that she can only sit or kneel.  Her body, in the black dress, becomes one line with her long legs, in the black tights, and the black shoes.

ITP Spring Show 2008

As an alumni and fan of the program I can only recommend you make the time to see the

ITP Spring Show 2008

May 12 - 13, 2008
5pm - 9pm

A two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners.

Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public
No need to RSVP

Interactive Telecommunications Program
Kanbar Institute of Film and Television
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor, South Elevators
New York NY 10003