DXARTS SoftLab

Maggie Orth - From Electronic Textiles to Technological Minimalism: On The Implications of Pervasive Computing in the Age of Environmental Crisis

Nov 21

Nov 21 Maggie Orth - From Electronic Textiles to Technological Minimalism: On The Implications of Pervasive Computing in the Age of Environmental Crisis

On two occasions in the past year, both in May 17th and November 21st 2017 we had the opportunity to host Seattle-based e-textiles pioneer, designer, artist, creative technologist, entrepreneur and writer - Maggie Orth for a guest talk on her work.

Oct 31

Oct 31 Kate Sicchio on Movement and Wearables

Afroditi Psarra

On Tuesday, October 31st 2017 we had the opportunity to host media artist and scholar, Kate Sicchio from NYU on a series of talks and workshops on Movement and Wearables, as well as the concept of Choreotopology. Kate works at the interface of technology and performance. By opening a dialogue between how people move and how this may change by engaging with the digital, she aims to create choreography, performative scores, video, programming languages and hacking methodologies.

Jun 29

Jun 29 Afroditi Psarra at Eyeo 2017 on Hand-Crafting Technological Artifacts & Wearable EMF Sensing

Afroditi Psarra

DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra, PhD, participated at Eyeo Festival with a lecture and a workshop on June 29th, at 10:30am. The festival was held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, June 26-29.

Festival Website: http://eyeofestival.com/about/

Jun 7

Jun 7 DXARTS 490B: E-textiles & Wearables for Art & Design - Spring 2017

Afroditi Psarra

DXARTS 490B is an introductory course to electronic textiles, soft-circuits and wearable technology. It provides hands-on prototyping for physical computing projects that explore the body as an interface of control for interactive environments. The students engage with smart materials, hand-crafted electronics and creative programming with Arduino to design their own interactive wearables. E-textiles and wearable computing can be used in multimedia performance projects, interface or game design, medical monitoring systems, and also as educational tools for people of all ages.

May 15

May 15 Tincuta Heinzel on Interactive Textiles, Reactive Materials, Personalised Mass-Production

Afroditi Psarra

On May 2017, in the context of DXARTS 490B: E-textiles & Wearables for Art & Design, we had the opportunity to host a guest lecture and a mini-workshop with e-textiles practitioner, researcher and independent art curator, Tincuta Heinzel. The lecture was supported by the OLF Lectures Program of Fulbright Commission.

Apr 24

Apr 24 Transparent & Dangerous with Hannah Perner-Wilson

Afroditi Psarra

On April 2017, the DXARTS softLab had the opportunity to host e-textiles practitioner Hannah Perner-Wilson from Kobakant for a guest lecture on her work and a mini-workshop entitled Transparent and Dangerous.

Apr 24

Apr 24 Irene Posch on E-textile tools at HCDE

Afroditi Psarra

On April 2017 Daniela Rosner and the Tactile & Tactical Design (TAT) Lab of HCDE hosted Austrian e-textile designer Irene Posch as an Artist-In-Residency. During her time at the University of Washington Irene Posch presented her work and her collaboration with e-textile designer Ebru Kurbak through the e-textiles research group Stitching Worlds at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Irene and Daniela invited the DXARTS 490B: E-textiles & Wearables students to her talk and a hands-on workshop on making e-textile tools.