E-textiles: Interactive Projects for the Jacquard Loom

Course Description

Techniques and technology from the field of Jacquard weaving and wearable computing will be implemented to create projects on the digital TC-1 loom. Interactive weavings will be produced by integrating technology consisting of conductive materials, electronics, and microcontrollers into hand-woven constructions. The course seeks to address hybrid art praxis through the use of everything from pre-historic to cutting-edge technology. Techniques covered in this course will include an introduction everything from making your own electronics from scratch to learning to weave using Photoshop together with the digital Jacquard Loom. Laptop is required. This course was co-taught by Margarita Benitez and Christy Matson.

Readings

Electronic Textiles: Wearable Computers, Reactive Fashion, and Soft Computation
Joanna Berzowska

Mistaken Ancestry
Martin and Virginia Davis

Fabric PCBs, Electronic Sequins, and Socket Buttons: Techniques for E-textile Craft
Leah Buechley and Michael Eisenberg

E-Broidery: Design and fabrication of textile-based computing
E.R. Post, M. Orth, P.R. Russo and N. Gershenfeld

The Epidermis as Metaphor
FoAM

Why We Need Things
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The LilyPad Arduino: Using Computational Textiles to Investigate Engagement, Aesthetics, and Diversity in Computer Science Education
Leah Buechley, Mike Eisenberg, Jaime Catchen, and Ali Crockett

The Fingerprint of the Second Skin
Kitty Hauser

In the Shadow of the Cyborg: an interview with Joey Berzowska
Jake Moore

Material and the Promise of the Immaterial
Ingrid Bachmann

Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture
Lynn Hershman Leeson

Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture
Sadie Plant

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