Wearable

Natasha Schull

Natasha Dow Schüll

Natasha Dow Schüll is a Cultural Anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her forthcoming book, KEEPING TRACK: Personal Informatics, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017), concerns the … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Wearable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 4:00-6:00pm

Lucy McRae

Lucy McRae is a sci-fi artist, film director and body architect. In films, music videos and immersive installations, she places the human body in complex, futuristic scenarios, focusing primarily on taking audiences out of their comfort zone. McRae is a TED … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Wearable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 4:00-6:00pm
Credit: Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff
Michelle Finamore

Michelle Finamore

Michelle Tolini Finamore is the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and has her Ph.D. from the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Books include Gaetano Savini: The Man Who Was Brioni (Assouline, 2015) … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Wearable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 4:00-6:00pm
Photo credit: Cem Talu.
Hussein Chalayan.

Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan, for more than twenty years, has used clothing as a platform to display materials that change state and transform themselves. His work is characterized by an adventurous, bold incorporation of technology and an ability to address conceptual issues—such … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Wearable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 4:00-6:00pm
Azra Akšamija. Credit Dietmar Offenhuber.
Azra Akšamija. Credit Dietmar Offenhuber.

Azra Akšamija

Azra Akšamija is an artist, architectural historian and Associate Professor in the MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program. In her multi-disciplinary work, Akšamija investigates the politics of identity and memory on the scale of the body (clothing and wearable technologies), on the civic … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Moderator, Wearable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 4:00-6:00pm
Courtesy of Christina Agapakis.
Christina Agapakis.

Christina Agapakis

Christina Agapakis is a biologist, artist, writer and creative director at Ginkgo Bioworks, an organism design company that is bringing biology to industrial engineering. She explores the aesthetics of biotechnology and has made cheese from the artist Olafur Eliasson’s tears. … Continued

BEING MATERIAL, 2017 CAST Symposium
Wearable Panel Discussion on Friday, April 21, 2017 from 4:00-6:00pm