Sabine SeymourFashionable Technology
The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology
Sabine Seymour received a Master of Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Economics in Vienna and Columbia University's MBA program in New York and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU'S Tisch School of the Arts. She introduced the course "Fashionable Technology" and is a long standing faculty member at Parsons The New School For Design in New York and joined the University for Art and Industrial Design in Linz. She has taken part in numerous international congresses and events including Smart Fabrics, Ars Electronica Festival, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She has also been a curator of pertinent exhibitions such as Our Cyborg Future: Me or Machine? Newcastle, UK, in 2007 and ISEA 2004 in Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia. Moondial is the consultancy that resulted from her research, concept works, and her role as an educator. It is specialized on "Fashionable Technology" with clients ranging from DuPont to Dott07.
Preface.- Theoretical Discourse.- Electronic Fashion.- Interactive Interfaces.- Scientific Couture.- Sensual Being and Tangible Touch.- Wearable Explorations.- Social Fabric.- Sonic Landscape.- Material Witness.- Project Websites.- Materials.- Bibliography.- Blogs and Websites.- Institutes.- Events.- Photo Credits.- Acknowledgements.- Biography.