Behind the Seams

Behind the seams lecture, featuring Joanna Berzowska “WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY” Textile Innovator Joanna Berzowska Speaks on “Wearable Technology” as Part of the SAIC’s “Behind the Seams” Lecture Series Thursday, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fashion Resource Center, Sullivan Building, 36 S. Wabash Avenue, Room 735 Tickets: $35. Seating is limited to 47 guests. For tickets, call (312) 629-6731 or visit www.saic.edu/frc Joanna Berzowska is a professor of design and computation arts, and the director of the graduate certificate program in digital technologies at Concordia University. She is a member of the Hexagram Research Institute in Montreal, and the founder and research director of XS Labs, a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments. These “second skins” can enable computer mediated interactions with the environment and the individual. Her firm is equally inspired by the technical and cultural history of how textiles have been made in the past (weaving, stitching, embroidery, knitting, beading and quilting) as well as new and emerging materials with different electro-mechanical properties, enabling the construction of complex textile-based surfaces, substrates and structures with “transitive” properties.