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Hey all - this might be of interest to you! Please join us if you can :)

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From: Emilie Giles <e.j....@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 17:25
Subject: Xmas E-Stitches talk - Monday 20th December - details
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Hey all - as promised here are the details for the E-Stitches event on Monday:

We'll kick off at 7pm - with talks for the first hour and then a break - followed by some open discussion.
Details below:
Time and date:
7pm (UK time) on Monday 20th December

List of speakers below:
Emilie Giles
Emilie is a researcher, artist and educator, her work focusing on creative technology linked with accessibility and empowerment. She is based in sunny Bournemouth on the South Coast of the UK.
She holds a PhD from The Open University exploring how e-textiles can be used as interactive tools for blind and visually impaired people, using participatory and co-designing approaches. Her current research is focusing on how her previous participants can progress their knowledge in interaction design to programming, working closely with the charity Fighting Blindness in Dublin to explore accessibility regarding this.
Emilie’s background is rooted in teaching people how to build their own creative technology projects, having been Co-director and Head of Outreach and Participation at Codasign for over three years. Project collaborators have included museums and galleries such as the V&A and Tate Britain, and she has taught at University of Westminster, London College of Communication and The Royal College of Art.
Title:
Empowerment Through Making: Working with Communities Through Creative Technology
Description:
Within human-computer interaction it has often been more common to design for people, particularly those with an impairment or disability. However, this is increasingly changing with these intended users instead becoming the designers and makers of their own technologies. Researcher and artist Emilie Giles will discuss her work around co-designing and making with blind and visually impaired people using e-textiles and physical computing.


Afroditi Psarra
Afroditi Psarra (Athens, 1982) is a transdisciplinary artist and an Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the art and science interaction with a critical discourse in the creation of artifacts. She is interested in the use of the body as an interface of control, and the revitalization of tradition as a methodology of hacking existing norms about technical objects. She uses cyber crafts and other gendered practices as speculative strings, and open-source technologies as educational models of diffusing knowledge. She holds a PhD in Image, Technology, and Design from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her dissertation entitled Cyberpunk and New Media Art focuses on the merging of science fiction ideas and concepts with performative and digital practices, and offers a philosophical, sociological, and aesthetic analysis of the influence of new technologies in the contemporary artistic process.
Her work has been presented at international media art festivals such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM, Eyeo, Amber, Piksel, and WRO Biennale between others, and published at conferences like Siggraph, ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), C&C (Creativity and Cognition), and EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts).
Title:
SF world building and wearables
Description:
This talk will introduce Haraway's quite concept of SF (science fiction, science facts, speculative fabulation, string figures, etc) and will discuss how it has been implemented in my recent work with wearables by engaging with energies (EMF, RF sensing), working with AI, ML, body actuation, and playing with the notion of language.


Anna Blumenkranz
Anna is a designer, educator and researcher based in Munich, Germany. She works within the field of creative technology and social design. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg, Austria, exploring how interactive technologies can be used to create meaningful and shared experiences for diverse groups of school children.
She has been teaching e-textiles at several universities since 2011, and has a lot of experience in conceptualizing and facilitating workshops around e-textiles and creative tech, both for adults and children. In 2017 her book “Wearables für Maker” was published by Franzis Verlag. Anna's recent projects focus on developing interactive e-textile interfaces for marginalized groups, and were awarded EU grants WEAR Sustain (2018) and WORTH partnership project (2020).
Title:
Social E-Textiles
Description:
How can e-textiles contribute to addressing the needs of underrepresented and marginalized groups of people? What kind of soft interfaces can be created in this context? And how can it broaden the field of e-textiles itself? In her talk Anna will present her work around assistive technology for persons with limited abilities and therapeutic interactive interface for people suffering from dementia.


Hope you can join us!

Best,

Emilie and Camille

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