"Hangout & Nerdout" Ep. 3 on November 18th Explores the Art of Electrons and Twisted Wires
Join our three guest nerds and hosts from Make: and Hackster.io for a virtual soirée filled with beautiful and boundary-pushing technology.
“Hangout & Nerdout” is a virtual community meetup series co-produced by Hackster and Make:. Each month, we bring members of both communities together to explore technology, innovation, and education. Register for this month's episode now and hear from three pioneers in art and technology!
Our premiere episode focused on wearable technologies and the second focused on conversation around sustainability, hosted as part of Hackster’s Impact Summit. Episode three will be all about art! From freestanding circuits to fire tech, we'll explore the art of electrons and twisted wires. Join our three guest nerds and hosts from Make: and Hackster.io for a virtual soirée filled with beautiful and boundary-pushing technology. This month we're talking with Anouk Wipprecht, Kelly Heaton, and Taylor Hokanson.
With a background in couture, interaction design, and electronics, Dutch fashion tech designer Anouk Wipprecht intersects fashion and technology on topics such as interactive couture, wearable devices, and smart textiles, combined with robotics, sensors, machine learning, and AI. Her famous spider dress is a perfect example of this aesthetic, where sensors and moveable arms on the dress help to create a more defined boundary of personal space while employing a fierce style.
Wipprecht researches and develops how our future wardrobe would look as we continue to embed technology into what we wear. Check out her Hackster profile and Light Up Kitty Ears 🐱 tutorial here.
Kelly Heaton is a cross-disciplinary artist, electrical engineer, and visionary of contemporary culture. She believes that electricity is the most important creative medium of our time and uses it to explore biological and artificial lifeforms. Her art combines electrical engineering with nature, spirituality, sculpture, painting, printmaking, design, and fashion. Heaton enlarges electronic devices to a human scale so that people can relate with circuits as a reflection of who we are. She also makes beautiful, functional circuits that mimic songbirds and insects with an uncanny life-like quality. Heaton aims to humanize tech culture and heal our relationship with nature through dialogue about the universal circuit in which we are all connected.
Taylor Hokanson is an artist, academic, open hardware advocate, and noted tall person. An early participant in the maker movement, Hokanson investigates the promising and problematic nature of uncritical technology consumption in the post-digital landscape. Principal among these concerns is human-computer interaction, computer-aided fabrication, and new models for collaborative authorship and content distribution. Humor and absurdity bring accessibility and fun to these important, but sometimes technically alienating topics. For example, his Controlled Feeding Status is a set of 3D-printed silver flatware that embodies the first world’s queasy relationship with food. Each fork in the series is covered with a progressive accumulation of tumor-like growths, offering implements that impede the eating process to different degrees. The work is presented on a velvet bed inside a fancy wooden box, and accompanied by a cake of Nutraloaf (a bland, though technically nutritious food product, that is served in some American prisons as punishment for misbehavior).
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