Lectures & exhibitions

2012

  • Functional Aesthetics, Commercial Fashion with Technology, Invited speaker, TexworldUSA, New York, USA

2011

  • Amplification of Energy, Invited speaker, Ambience11, Boras, Sweden
  • Networked Fashion, Invited keynote and panel, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Future Textiles, Expert Summit, Invited expert, Herning, Denmark
  • Smart Fabrics, Invited speaker, Functional Aesthetics, London, UK
  • #2 Materials Explorations, Fashionable Technology Series, Parsons The New School for Design, Symposium and workshops, event organization, New York, USA
  • Re-made in America, fashion roundtable, Invited panel member, New York, USA

2010

  • #1, Functional Aesthetics, Fashionable Technology Event Series, Parsons The New School for Design, Symposium and exhibition, event organization, New York, USA
  • TEDxVienna, Invited speaker, Functional Aesthetics, Vienna, Austria
  • Ars Electronica, Presentation, Functional Aesthetics, Linz, Austria
  • Fabric Futures, Exhibition of SUN No1, Providence, RI, USA
  • Expert Meeting, Invited Expert, V2, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2009

  • Kepler Salon, Invited speaker, Linz, Austria
  • BIG Design Conference, Invited speaker, Ljubjana, Slovenia
  • Coded Culture, Invited speaker, Yokohama, Japan
  • Ars Electronica Festival, Invited speaker: The Future of Fashion Retail, Linz, Austria
  • Wearable Explorations, Netherland New Media Institute, Invited keynote speaker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Coded Culture, Invited speaker: Functional Aesthetics, Vienna, Austria
  • V2, Invited keynote speaker: Test_lab: Fashionable Technology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Fashion in Context, Invited lecture: Fashionable Wearables, Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces, Vienna, Austria

2008

  • Fujifilm ZSpotNow: Fashion & Technology, Invited panel member, New York, USA
  • Ars Electronica Festival, Lecture and book presentation: Fashionable Technology, Linz, Austria

2007

  • Ubicomp2007, Lecture: Designing for the extended body – Hearing aids and transitive materials, Invited workshop participant, Innsbruck, Austria
  • 6. Deutscher Designtag, Invited lecture: Function and Aesthetics in Fashionable Wearables, Berlin, Germany
  • Smart Textiles, Invited Lecture: Fashionable Technology – The Impact of Design on Innovations, Washington, DC, USA

2006

  • Interface and Society, Atelier Nord, Invited lecture: The Epidermis as Interface – Dynamic Textile Surfaces, Oslo, Norway
  • Fleshing Out, V2 & Virtuell Platform, Lecture: Collaborations and Innovations in Fashionable Technology, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Design-Tagung, Ars Electronica, Lecture: Emotionelle Kleidung – aus der Wunderkiste, Linz, Austria
  • Electronic Etheralism, Invited workshop participant, New York, USA
  • Mittwochsvision, Ars Electronica, Lecture: Digitale Technologien und Handwerk, Linz, Austria
  • Acar2, Invited workshop participant, Craft, Design, and Media Technology, Senones, France
  • The empire’s new clothes, Atelier Nord, Workshop leader, Oslo, Norway

2005

  • FO.AM Softwear. Lecture: The Epidermis as Metaphor, The Essential Balance of Function and Aesthetic Appeal, Brussels, Belgium
  • World Winter Forum, Presentation: How to Design Intelligent Clothing for Winter Sports, Vienna, Austria
  • Mensch und Computer 2005 – Kunst und Wissenschaft – Grenzüberschreitung der Interaktiven Art, Lecture: Interface Cultures, Fashionable Technology, Linz, Austria
  • Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Summer Design Institute, Workshop: Fashionable Technology – The Epidermis as Metaphor, New York, USA
  • 3rd International Avantex-Symposium, Lecture: The Epidermis as Metaphor: The Art of Creating Intelligent Clothing, Frankfurt, Germany

2004

  • Mobile HCI 2004, Panel: Mobile Communication vs Pervasive Computing: The Role of Handhelds, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • ISEA 2004, International Programming Committee for the Section “Wearable Experience”, Panel Moderator, Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland
  • Banff New Media Institute, Outside/Inside: Boundary Crossings A Wearable Design Workshop, Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence, Lecture: Fashionable Technology, Banff, Canada
  • Netzwerkstoffe, Lecture: Fashionable Technology, Luzern, Switzerland

2003

  • Viper, Project Presentation: SlopeStyle, Basel, Switzerland
  • ACAR/2 – An Academy for Interactive Crafts, Workshop and Panel, Basel, Switzerland
  • RAM3 – Reclaiming Cultural Territory in New Media, Workshop: Fashionable Technology, Panel: New Media Education – Questions of Future, Tallinn, Estonia
  • E-Culturefair, Exhibition: SlopeStyle, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • ISWC2003, Poster: SlopeStyle, White Plains, USA
  • Wear Me, Exhibition of student works from the Collaboration Studio: Fashionable Technology, Rotherham, England, UK

2001

  • E-Fashion, Symposium on Fashion and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, Event organization, New York, USA
  • Interactive Telecommunication Program, NYU, Lecture: Pervasive Computing, New York, USA

1998

  • Ars Electronica Festival, Noisia/New Vision, Installation/Exhibition, Linz, Austria
  • European Media Arts Festival, Grrl Power Possie, various installations, Osnabrück, Germany

1997

  • Ars Electronica Festival, Faces, Installation, Linz, Austria
  • Interactive Telecommunications Program, OPA, exhibition, New York, USA