Crafting Resistance Workshop 4: Embedded Messages
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RFID and NFC systems are pervasive -- they exist in passports, credit cards, on keychains, etc. How can people from diverse backgrounds utilize these technologies to create useful, subversive, and/or simple methods for two way communication through crafted objects and body gestures?
Learn basic embroidery/paper craft, wireless RFID communication, and soft circuitry techniques to spread a message that is meaningful to you. No prior knowledge is necessary, only an excitement to learn, play, make, and collaborate. All are welcome and encouraged to join.
Crafting Resistance is a four-part workshop series held by the MFA Design + Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. We seek to bring the NYC craft, wearable tech, fashion, and open source technology communities together to investigate new modalities of resistance by exploring the hybrid practices eTextile and eCraft fields.
Future workshops will take place every weekend in April. We will focus on thermochromic ink, DIY motors, muscle wire, fabric & paper speaker construction, and RFID communication, in addition to exploring eTextiles as an activist practice.
Organizer Liza Stark + Nicole Messier
Organizer of Crafting Resistance Workshop 4: Embedded Messages
Liza Stark is a designer, playmaker, and educator based in New York. She sculpts circuits out of fabric and paper, creates game-like learning experiences, and works hand-in-hand with communities to make epic things. Right now her practice focuses on designing performative games that combine electronics & textiles with whimsy & activism to yield embodied learning experiences that question the social spaces we’ve constructed.
She teaches Computational Craft in the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design and her work has been featured in Maker Faire, Open Hardware Summit, CIANT, ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interfaces Conference, eTextile Summercamp at Moulins Paillard, and more.
Nicole Messier is a Brooklyn based technologist, maker, and designer whose practice spans across physical and digital platforms that focus on education, interaction, and playfulness. She is also a Creative Technologist at Local Projects and adjunct faculty at Parsons School of Design where she teaches creative coding. Her work has been featured at Maker Faire, Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction conference, SXSWedu, The Contours of Algorithmic Life, and more.
