Description:
The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles
The Intersection of Material Making and Computation
What will a programmable painting or textile be like? How will it work? How can the physical material of paint, dye, textile and pigment interact with software and time? How will artists create these objects? What are there alternatives to monitors?
This talk will present the research and creative work of artist and inventor Maggie Orth, PhD. Orth will give an overview of her early creative and technical work in physical computation at the MIT Media Lab and then delve more deeply into her art and research in electronic textiles at her company International Fashion Machines, Inc. She will review early electronic fashions, various textile sensors and her computer controlled color-change fabric, Electric Plaid. She will look at the importance of fundamental design in the development and refinement of e-textiles, and the role that e-textiles can play in transforming technology. She will discuss her artistic and technical motivation for creating Electronic Textiles, her goals for Future Interactive Fashions. The talk will also look closely at the implication of software and time on traditionally static media, like textiles and painting. It will present electronic textiles as an aesthetic alternative to video rate, fully resolution, programmable visual media (the computer screen).
Speaker(s):
Maggie Orth, artist and technologist, International Fashion Machines, Inc
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