Bodies and Beyond Exploring Technology and the Human Form

How can technology interpret, acknowledge, or extend the human form? And how can objects that live in the bodysphere enhance, inhibit, or mediate our social interactions? This talk will present both solo projects by Kate Hartman as well as collaborative projects from the Social Body Lab - a research, art, and design lab dedicated to exploring body-centric technologies in the social context.

 

Kate Hartman is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the author of the recently published book “Make: Wearable Electronics”. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Hartman is based in Toronto at OCAD University where she is the Associate Professor of Wearable and Mobile Technology in the Digital Futures program.