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Robot Clothes James Powderly, Michelle Kempner (Robot Clothes) 2002 research, partnership, collaboration, art, commercial, innovation, science
Robot Clothes is an art and commercial research and development partnership, specializing in robotic systems, interaction design and product prototyping. This partnership, formed in 2002 by Michelle Kempner and James Powderly, utilizes a hybrid fine art and commercial design and engineering approach to support innovative science and technology development efforts for clients including fortune 100 companies, NASA and internationally renowned artists, such as Diller + Scofidio and Miranda July. In addition to contracted research and development efforts, Robot Clothes internally supports fine art projects ranging from a robotic public sculpture for Central Park to an animatronic opera about Crohnís Disease.
sf fashion & tech Mika Uehara, Charles Belle, Adelle McElveen blog, trends, startups, wearable tech, fashtech
SF FASHION+TECH (SFFT) is dedicated to the intersection of fashion, design, and technology in the SF Bay Area. We gather thought leaders in the fashion, design, and technology spaces, including designers, retailers, entrepreneurs, software developers, marketers, bloggers, investors, and enthusiastic individuals to promote and drive advancements in new media, ecommerce, mobile, wearable technology, and other applications. MISSION Our mission is to promote, support, and facilitate the development of businesses, organizations and products at the intersection of fashion, design, and technology. Through monthly events, partnerships with local organizations, and newsletter and blog features, we strive to become the hub for fashion, design, and technology in the SF Bay Area. HOW WE DO IT SFFT holds monthly events around topics relating to fashion and technology. Our event programming includes workshops, speaker events, demo days, mixers, hackathons, and conferences. We also maintain a blog and publish bi-weekly newsletters highlighting innovative technologies, startups, and approaches, and include our musings on industry activity.
TEXTILE Kaunas Biennial Chief Executive: Virginija Vitkienė (info@kaunas.biennial.lt), Project administrator Gintarė Dūdėnaitė gintare@bienale.lt, (Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas Biennial Board E-mail: info@kaunas.biennial.lt) biennial, fall discursive textile culture, textile art, exhibition
We seek to make Kaunas biennial TEXTILE the most significant event for contemporary textile art in Europe, which reflects analytically the art processes currently taking place all over the world, by bringing up the priorities of creative collaboration, openness and democratic relationships in the processes of art creation and its perception. Kaunas Biennial is a platform and a real opportunity for - artists’ debates and the realisation of innovative ideas, - collaboration among artists and visitors, - the enhancement of the sense of community through creative activities, - interdisciplinary artistic and academic practices, - international and intercontinental partnerships and - the creation of a discursive textile culture.