Elke Gaugele: Climate Changes in Science Fashion

Elke Gaugele: Climate Changes in Science Fashion  

Presented by MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)

September 13, 2010


As future technologies of the modern augmented self and its geopolitical extensions, proactive clothing was first anticipated at the turn of the century in popular culture, science fiction and art. Since the 1960s, this question has become a fixed part of the cyborg discourse while “science fashions” were shifting from astronautics and military research to wearable computing and smart clothes. The political climate also changed since the Cold War. Artists, architects and fashion designers started to create climate capsules, green wearables and interactive research and communication tools for climate activists. Gaugele will reflect upon these climate changes in “science fashion” and discusses different points of departure for its contemporary artistic research.



Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Fashions and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.



This talk is part of the "Give me shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments" lecture series, organized by the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology.



For more information:

http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html

act@mit.edu

617-253-5229



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Tickets:

Free and open to the public.


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Dates & Times

Dates: September 13, 2010


Times:

7:00 PM

Venue Info

MIT Bartos Theater

Wiesner Building (E15), Lower Level, 20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA


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