‘Wearables, Prosthetics and the Future of Fashion’

Textile crafts have used digitally coded algorithms over 30.000 years before the invention of the computer.

Even in the neolithicum people had been literally wrapped in code, as weaving looms predate in many ways the codes and algorithms, which are ubiquitous in modern computers. The first pioneers of computing have been inspired by the punch-card-controlled weaving looms. But for a very long time clothing – one of the most disruptive wearables in human history – was merely static: The computational smartness only available at production time.

 
 

Today most digital technology still consists of hard boxes, Modern material science, electronics and sensor technologies aim at bridging that gap, allowing textiles and clothing incorporating yet-to-be unseen functionality in our second skin.

We will discuss with transdisciplinary makers giving perspectives on fashion, material science, craftsmanship, economics, electronics and self optimization.

 

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Verena Kuni

She is a curator, writer, scholar in art theory & history, cultural and media studies and professor for visual culture at JWGU in Frankfurt.

Zack Freedman

Zack Freedman from NYC  is a hardware developer and hacker, a cyber-activist and hyper-neoliberalist.

Hannah Perner-Wilson

Hannah Perner-Wilson explores the use of textile crafts and electronics as a medium for commenting on technological aspects of today’s “high-tech” society.

Janine Häberle

Janine Häberle is a trained textile designer, working at Forster Rohner Textile Innovations, one of the leading companies for fashionable embroideries in Haute Couture and Lingerie.