We will be hosting a one day symposium on Friday 14 September 2007. Its starting point is to explore how people involved in textile making are involved in practice based research teams across art, science and technology. We will focus on collaboration between artists, museologists and technologists and their relationship to textiles, touch and technology.
Janis Jefferies is Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, artist, writer and curator with particular interests in digtial art and sound, the relationship between text, textiles, technology and access to cultural artefacts through touch and sound.
She is Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles. She is currently project manager for NESTA for activities that include on-line learning resources.
Dr. Zane Berzina: Artist, designer and researcher Dr Zane Berzina, originally from Latvia, is involved in interdisciplinary projects across the fields of science, technology, design and the arts. Her practice and research evolves around responsive, active and interactive textiles, new materials, processes and technologies as well as biomimetic practices.
In 2005 Zane completed a practice-based Ph.D. 'Skin Stories : Charting and Mapping the Skin' at the University of the Arts London, using analogies of human skin in relation to her textile practice.
Currently she is a Research Fellow at the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths, University of London and an Associate of the Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
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