People
Speakers
Mouna Andraos is an interaction designer working
on the relationship between people and technology in various mediums
including web, mobile, electronics and wearables and applying ideas
of softness, intimacy and uniqueness to the electronic spaces and
objects that are increasingly inhabiting our personal environments.
She worked for five years with BlueSponge, a Montreal based interactive
production studio where she completed numerous award winning work
for institutions such as CBC/Radio-Canada, FIND (International Nouvelle
Danse Festival), the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Banff New Media Institute; with recognitions ranging from a Best
of Show & Best of Art at the South by South West web awards
to a cyberLion in Cannes. She recently completed her Master's degree
at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School
of the Arts, New York University.
Otto Von Busch is a PhD-candidate in critical
fashion design at Göteborg University, Sweden. He has previously
been teaching design theory at Malmö University, Sweden and
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Besides his critical fashion
practice he has been collaborating in many constellations. His work
has been exhibited at events like the 3rd Berlin Biennale and the
8th Istanbul Biennale.
Giana González is a multimedia designer
with a background in Architecture. She received her masters on Interactive
Telecommunications from Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University.
She received her undergraduate degree in architecture from Catholic
University in Washington DC. Her work explores the different ways
in which fashion and space can be altered, fused and/or enhanced
with technology and alternative ways of construction - from concept
to production. Giana has worked in architecture and design, media
related projects including the New York Fashion week, and taught
at Eyebeam. She is currently working on the Italian Hack, the second
brainstorming session from Hacking-Couture.com. She is based in
New York City.
Timothy Mohn is an artist and computer scientist.
He is the Founding Director of the Digital Arts Research Laboratory
at Pratt Institute in New York City. He graduated from New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program as a Tisch School
of the Arts Fellow. His current research is focused on the relationships
between artist, viewer and artifact, focused on expanding and redefining
these systems of interrelation through artifacts, computational
aesthetics and kinetic painting. He is also interested in the creative
act as digital artists, digital art conservation, curating of digital
art, and what it means to be working within these roles at the intersection
of art, design, technology, science, and culture.
Despina Papadopoulos is an interaction designer
and the founder of Studio 5050. A graduate of NYU’s Interactive
Telecommunications Program and with an M.A in Philosophy, she has
lectured on wearable computing and its uses in everyday life, at
NYU, Parsons School of Design, Ivrea Design Institute and the Jan
van Eyck Academie as well as numerous conferences. Her projects
have been on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London,
the Gwangju Design Biennale in Korea, the Amsterdam Science Museum
and her work has appeared in publications and magazines around the
world. She is also teaching "Personal Expression and Wearable
Technologies" and "The Softness of Things: Technology
in Space and Form" at NYU's Interactive Telecommunication Program.
Her work for Interval Research Corporation and NCR’s The Knowledge
Lab has been awarded a series of patents.
Edouard Roschi is the co-founder of Le Labo fragrances.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD, worked for 4 years with Firmenich in
Geneva as Commercial Director for Fragrances for North Africa and
Middle East and 4 years at L’Oreal as International Marketing
Director for the Emporio Armani and Armani Exchange fragrance brands.
Clemens Thornquist is the Head of Fashion at the
School of Textiles University College of Borås and is currently
a guest researcher FIT. Clements wrote his PhD thesis on "The
savage and the designed – Robert Wilson and Vivienne Westwood
as artistic managers" at Stockholm University, School of Business.
Workshop Participants
Emily Albinski is Brooklyn based designer interested
in how context influences the perception of technical objects. She
recently co-founded a company with Diana Eng, whose aim is to help
merge the disparate worlds of fashion and technology.
Sawad Brooks is a media artist and award winning
designer working with public and information spaces. His works are
in the collection of the Walker Art Center, and have been shown
internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art
and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam). He has taught
at Yale University, Merz Akademie (Stuttgart); Parsons School of
Design (New York), and Brown University. He is a member of bbc art
+ architecture (bbcaa.com), the runner-up finalist in the World
Trade Center Memorial Design Competition.
Diana Eng is an apparel designer who hopes to
create a new aesthetic by combining fashion with technology. Diana
was a contestant on Project Runway and her work has appeared in
Wired, ID Magazine, Make/Craft, and is currently featured at an
exhibit in Centre des Art d'Enghien les Bains.
Zach Eveland is an electrical engineer and designer
and is currently a
student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He
has designed a series of diagnostic devices and medical elctronics.
His recent work is focused on ambient and subtle methods of communication
and interaction.
Francesca Granata is completing her Ph.D. in visual
culture at Central Saint Martins with a focus in experimental fashion
and performance art. She is the editor of Fashion Projects and a
lecturer at Goldsmiths' Visual Arts department.
Grace Kim is a recent graduate of the Interactive
Telecommunications Program at NYU. She is interested in integrating
technology with traditional craft techniques. Her most recent work
can be found at: www.iamgracie.com/thesis
Younghui Kim is a New York City-based designer.
For the last 14 years, she has worked in various media, including
environmental graphics, print, motion graphics and interactive media,
and has been recognized with several interactive design awards.
Merging her passion of design and technology, Younghui began to
design interactive wearable technology and presented at conferences
and exhibitions such as Design Biennale 2005, Siggraph 2004, HCI
Design and Ubicomputing 2004.
Alison Lewis is a New York based artist and designer
whose work focuses on technology with a soft, fun, social, and romantic
appeal. In doing so, Alison's work touches on sociological concepts
such as identity, attraction, modesty and, most importantly, love.
Sarah Scaturro is an independent fashion historian
and textile conservator currently consulting at the Cooper-Hewitt
NDM. She is also co-curating an exhibition on sustainable fashion
for Fashion Projects.
Sabine Seymour focuses on 'the next generation
wearables‘ and the intertwining of aesthetics and function.
She is described as being an innovator, visionary, trend setting,
holistic in her approach, and a lateral thinker. Her company Moondial
Inc smart textiles, wearables technologies, fashion & technology,
and pervasive spaces. Sabine teaches at Parsons New School of Design,
University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz/Austria, and Academy
of Arts in Tallinn/Estonia. She is currently writing her PhD dissertation
dealing with creativity, innovation, and economics in smart clothing/wearables.
Sonali Sridhar is a designer who focuses on mass
media and communication. Having come to the US in 1998, she is interested
in the hysteria of brand awareness and individual expression.
Miriam Songster is a web producer and an installation
artist. Recently she has been considering the relationship of her
art practice to existing and perhaps future notions of the sublime.
This agenda grew, in part, out of her use of perfumes in various
installations.
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