Musée d'art contemporain lecture series: Joey Berzowska

"Soft Computation and Responsive Fashion"

In cooperation with the program Defiant Imagination (Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University) and Hexagram. Lecture in French, followed by a 20-minute question period in French and English. Free admission. Official program. Information: imagine@alcor.concordia.ca or www.finearts.concordia.ca. Tel.: (514) 848-2424 extension 5201.

In the BWR Hall.

Joanna Berzowska is an Assistant Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. Her work and research deal primarily with soft computation: electronic textiles, responsive clothing as wearable technology, reactive materials, and squishy interfaces.

She is the founder of XS design/research Labs in Montreal. She was the cofounder of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she developed the first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid, an addressable color-change textile.

She received her Masters of Science from MIT for her work titled Computational Expressionism. She worked with the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab on research projects such as the musicBottles. She directed Interface Design at the Institute for Interactive Media at the University of Technology in Sydney. She holds a BA in Pure Mathematics and a BFA in Design Arts.

Her art and design work have been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, SIGGRAPH, Art Directors Club in NYC, Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. She has lectured about the intersections of art, design, technology and computation at SIGGRAPH, Banff New Media Institute in Canada and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy among others.