Meg GrantMeg Grant (NL) is a maker and an aspiring mad inventor. Meg Grant Formally-trained in fashion design and self-taught in web development, she now spends as much of her time possible experimenting with electronics, soft circuits and embedding technology into textiles. Meg is involved in V2_'s E-Textile Workspaces. Document Actions1
Sep 2011
New artworks by Kasia Molga, Julie Legault, Xiaowen Zhu, E-textile Workspace, Jelle Valk and Olav Huizer, developed at V2_ during this year's Summer Sessions. Music by AFTA-1. 15
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Exhibition curated by Anouk Wipprecht, presenting electronic textiles and wearable technologies created by international haute tech couture designers at quartier21 in Vienna. The "TK 730" (2011) is a work by the eTextiles Workspace group (Anja Hertenberger, Leonie Urff, Ricardo O'Nascimento and Meg Grant). Dutch-based E-Textile Workspace is a project and reflection for wearable technology. This months's eTextile workspace started out with three presentations around the topic of recycling textiles and e-waste. Producers of eTextiles already encounter recycling problems on small scale productions of prototypes, so there should be a ... The eTextiles Summer Camp is a five day event that brings together expert practitioners of eTextiles and Soft Circuitry in one place to share their knowledge and skills through hands-on workshops, and facilitate discussions around their practices. ... Beta Textiles is the notion that textiles do not only consist of their material shape, but are also defined by some sort of code like knitting or weaving patterns. And if you consider textiles as code, could Open Source philosophy apply to the ... June 10 2010, V2_ participated at the Maker Lab during the DMY Festival. Meg Grant, Melissa Coleman, Anja Hertenberger, Joachim Rotteveel and Piem Wirtz represented the E-Textile Workspace in Berlin. The 21st of October 2010, the E-Textile group chose 'transformational garments' as starting point for discussion. Where the topic can be interpreted very literally, in the sense of transforming the shape of a wearable piece, the discussion evolved ... A selected group of textile designers, DIY hackers and E-Textile experts have been invited by The Swedish School of Textiles to discuss the role of craft in wearable technology. This 4-day hands-on workshop explored the topic of ‘Future E-Textiles ... The 4th E-Textile Workspace took place on 24 February 2010. We were joined by two students from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. Aduen Darriba and Anouk Wipprecht are working on a graduation project together that integrates wearable ... Third E-Textile Workspace, January 21 2010, focused on the question of why we make wearables. TK 730 from the E-Textile workspace is part of the sixth international conference TEI, which focuses on the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. TEI 2012 takes place from 19th to 22nd February at Queen's Human Media Lab in ... DMY International Design Festival Berlin, 09-13 June 2010, has invited the E-Textile team to give a hands-on workshop at their Maker Lab space. In the 5th E-Textile Workspace we focused on the question how to make textiles move. Previously, some ad hoc experimentation with Flexinol shape memory alloy was done, but we all agreed it would be interesting to see what we could come up with ... As the outside temperature rises, so does it rise inside the V2_Lab – the 2011 Summer Sessions have begun! |
