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Fóruns podem ser precedidos de workshops sujeitos a inscrição prévia, com vagas limitadas.

Direcção Paulo Gouveia
Programação e coordenação Margarida Vale de Gato, Paulo Raposo, Teresa Almeida

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Workshops:
Dec, 13 "Soft Circuits: an introduction to Wearable Technology"
Dec, 14 Handcrafting textile sensors from scratch

Forum:
Dec, 14, 18.30 Wearable Technology Art: mobility, communication, and the body as interface"

This fórum offers two workshops on December 13 and 14, the first aimed at participants with no previous experience, and the second aimed at participants with previous experience with textiles, craft or sensor technology (encouraged, but not necessary). After the workshops, Monday, 18.30, a public presentation wil take place with Teresa Almeida, Hannah Perner-Wilson e Mika Satomi.

Workshop:
Soft Circuits: an introduction to Wearable Technology
Teresa Almeida

December 13.2009 , 14.00 - 19.00h
20 participants (max)
Price: 40 euros (both 70)
CPAI, Lisboa

The workshop will cover topics such as wearable and fashionable technology, soft circuitry, conductive materials, and basic electronics. Materials and techniques for designing a soft circuit will be introduced, and participants will be provided with hands-on experience by later implementing it on a garment.

Participants should bring a piece of clothing or accessory (a scarf, a t-shirt, a handbag,...) that they would like to modify by having an electronic interface into it. This electronic interface is a soft circuit that will consist of conductive fabric, thread, and one to three LED lights.

Workshop:
Handcrafting textile sensors from scratch
Hannah Perner-Wilson

December 14 2009, 11.00 - 18.00h
15 participants (max)
Price: 40 euros (both 70)
CPAI, Lisboa

Requirements: previous experience with textiles, craft or sensor technology is encouraged, but not necessary

Focusing on available low-cost materials and tools to explore tactile qualities of textiles in wearable interaction scenarios, this workshop introduces a range of different methods for handcrafting and customizing textile sensors and circuitry. Participants will learn previously developed techniques and are encouraged to explore new combinations, designing solutions that will yield interesting sensor results. The goal is to get hands-on working experience with these materials and to engross in experimentation.

Sensors that will be introduced in the workshop include pressure and bend sensors constructed by layering conductive and pressure sensitive materials, knitted stretch sensors that can also detect pressure, crocheted tilt potentiometers, embroidered and fused tilt sensors and stitched stroke sensors.

Biographies

Originally from Portugal, Teresa Almeida is currently based in Singapore, where she is Lecturer in Media Arts, Coordinator of Interactive Art at LASALLE College of the Arts. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and a BA in Theatre Design from the College of Theatre and Film in Lisbon. She was artist-in-residence at Ljudmila-Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, and most recently at the Banff New Media Institute. Her work has been showed widely, and it is published in the book Fashionable Technology. www.banhomaria.net

KOBAKANT is a collaboration between Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson. Together we explore the realm of wearable technology as a medium for commenting on technological and social aspects. Throughout our projects we are conscious of wearability and functionality. We believe in the spirit of humoring technology and bringing a twisted criticism toward the stereotypes it creates. For us, technology is to be hacked, DIYed and modified by everyone to fit our needs and and desires.www.kobakant.at/

Hannah Perner-Wilson is currently a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group lead by Leah Buechley at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores material properties for their use in creating handmade human-computer interaction scenarios. Since 2006 she has collaborated with Mika Satomi, forming the collective KOBAKANT. Focusing on the development of available and affordable wearable technology to open the black box of technology, believing that it is to be hacked, DIYed and modified by everyone to fit our needs and desires. In 2009, as research fellows at the Distance Lab in Scotland, KOBAKANT published an online database for their DIY wearable technology titled HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. Hannah holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Design from the Art University of Linz, Austria. www.plusea.at

Mika Satomi is originally from Japan and currently a PhD candidate at University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Austria. She has studied Graphic Design at Tokyo Zokei University, Media Art at Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Science (IAMAS), Japan. In her practice, her interest is to experiment with technology as a medium of expression and to understand its language capability. Since 2007, she has been collaborating with Hannah Perner-Wilson under the name Kobakant. Their projects often involve Wearable Technology, turning one's body into an interface, creating unusual interaction between humans and machines, but also between humans (users) and humans. (audience). KOBAKANT pursue their practice with the spirit of Open Source and sharing knowledge.www.nerding.at