Anouk Wipprecht - CODAME Featured Artist

What does fashion lack? “Microcontrollers” according to Dutch based fashiontech designer and innovator Anouk Wipprecht. As she is working in the emerging field of “fashionable technology”; a rare combination of fashion design combined with engineering, science and interaction/user experience design, she created an impressive body of tech-enhanced designs bringing together fashion and technology in an unusual way. She creates technological couture; with systems around the body that tend towards artificial intelligence; projected as ‘host’ systems on the human body, her designs move, breath, and react to the environment around them.

Part futuristic, part anime-meets-high fashion, her aesthetics are set apart from more utilitarian wearables (which are all about function) and can be considered artistic creations in themselves. Many of her designs have been exhibited in exhibitions as well as fashion events. In Anouk’s designs the technology creates the aesthetics as opposed to simply enhancing a function which is hidden. Keen on showing the nuts and bolts of the garments (often the valves and mechanisms are displayed on the outside) we witness the designs creating their own unique forms of interaction, movement and meaning.

Wipprecht is an artist, designer, curator and lecturer (Netherlands, China, Austria) in electronic couture, worked for names as the Black Eyed Peas, SuperBowl 2011, Eurovision 2012, with work featured in international magazines. She is the brainchild and curator of the TECHNOSENSUAL ‘Where Fashion meets Technology’ exhibition, with attached Artist in Residency program to stimulate the grow of fashiontech projects coupling fashion designers and engineers together, that took place in Vienna/Austria over the summer of 2012 and attracted 32.000 visitors in a two and a half month time span.

She is currently based in Vienna/Austria, and travels between Amsterdam (NL), Los Angeles (USA), San Francisco (USA) and Montreal (CA).

Photo (top) by Jean-Sébastien Senécal. DareDroid 2.0 cocktailmaking robot dress by fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht in collaboration with Jane Tingley and Marius Kintel.

Meet Anouk at our CODAME FASHION+MUSIC Event June 26th, 2013 from 7pm-2am at Public Works, San Francisco.

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CODAME Featured Artist: Vinit Patil

Vinit was raised in Bangkok, where he narrowly escaped baptism at RIS, a school run by fanatic  American missionaries. He then moved to India to attend Engineering School. Even after graduating, Vinit had no idea how to fix a radio or program a VCR. His uncle was kind enough to give him a job soldering circuit boards. Vinit quit within a few months (much to his uncle’s delight) to pursue a more creative career.

He  decided to attend the Creative Circus. Vinit got his copywriting diploma in 2002 which, even today, his dad believes is worthless (it kinda is). 

Vinit previously worked at Taxi, New York for two years as a writer, not a cab driver (you may think so, since he was a Indian guy in NYC ).

Prior to New York, he worked at Leo Burnett , where he braved the Chicago winters for three years. 

Vinit believes there are plenty of ways for brands to make millions of dollars, but the cheapest and fastest way is through is innovation.

Vinit has won awards for innovation in digital advertising from the Webby’s, The London International Advertising Festivals, The One Show, Cannes, The FWA and other shows with fun parties.

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Scott Summit - CODAME Featured Design Industry Insider

Scott Summit seeks to connect complex human needs with design and technology solutions. To this end, he founded Bespoke Innovations in 2010, based on 20 years of experience and research in design and additive fabrication.  Bespoke was founded on the simple idea that an integrated approach that connects design, medicine and new technology stands to offer more meaningful and individualized solutions to address a wide variety of human needs.  As a designer, his clients have included Apple, Nike, Palm, Silicon Graphics, and other innovations-oriented companies large and small.  His designs have earned international recognition including top honors from the IDSA, IDEA, The Chicago Athenaeum, IGood Design, and Core77.  Summit holds over 20 design and utility patents and has held faculty positions at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, and currently holds a faculty position at Singularity University.  He has spoken at TEDx Cambridge, PAI, the Vanguard Lecture Series, the Summit Series, Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series and keynoted at Autodesk University. Bespoke was acquired by 3D Systems in May of 2012, and now drives its medical solutions research. He is also the founder of world known industrial design firm Summit ID.

Meet Scott at our CODAME 3D PRINTING Event May 1, 2013 from 6-9pm at Adobe, San Francisco.

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Natacha Merrit - CODAME Featured Artist

An accomplished artist and producer, Merritt was ready for a new challenge and soon developed a passion for biology - “the ultimate exploration of life,” she says. She returned to higher education in 2005 to study biology at the San Francisco State University, specialising in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology. 

In 2008, while deep in her studies of biology, she wrote an ‘insect circus’ inspired by her observations of the insect world and celebrating the importance of biodiversity. She licensed the rights to Cirque du Soleil and the circus became OVO, still touring. Merritt’s recent work highlights how our morphologies are intimately linked to other species through shared and convergent evolution. While proposing a new feminist stance, Merritt incorporates scientific insights with her artistic practice. Her new work unveils an untapped sexual beauty and eroticism hidden within all species.

Meet Natacha at our CODAME 3D PRINTING Event May 1, 2013 from 6-9pm at Adobe, San Francisco.

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Kristen Turner - CODAME Featured Speaker

Kristen is CMO of Ponoko, an online laser cutting and 3D printing service based in the Bay Area. She’s presented talks on 3D Printing at BarCamp Miami, Girls in Tech Minneapolis, and RAPID. Photo: Ponoko project from Chicago based artist Sophie Kahn.

Meet Kristen at our CODAME 3D PRINTING Event May 1, 2013 from 6-9pm at Adobe, San Francisco.

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Stefano Corazza - CODAME Featured Artist

Stefano Corazza  is an entrepreneur and interactive installation artist. He holds a M.Sc. in Design, a PhD in mechanical engineering and a PhD in bioengineering. Former paragliding test-pilot, he spent four years as Researcher at Stanford Biomotion Lab prior to starting Mixamo, the world’s first online 3D character animation service where he serves as CEO. His most recent works include producing a video for Björk’s album Biophilia and the [I am bird] interactive 3D experience shown as permanent installation at the Nature&Science Museum in Dallas.

Photo from 4D Printing: Multi-Material Shape Change: MIT 2013

Meet Stefano at our CODAME 3D PRINTING Event May 1, 2013 from 6-9pm at Adobe, San Francisco.

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CODAME Feature Artist: James Morgan

James is an instructor for Digital Media Art at San José State University and is the Director of Ars Virtua. His work involves social interaction, coded culture and democratic structures in game-spaces and simulations. James curates art and games in physical and simulated spaces.

James Morgan is and artist, educator and researcher. He has an MFA in Digital Media Art from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media. He has worked as a curator for nearly ten years, and shown work nationally and internationally at venues such as 01SJ, ISEA2006, EMAF, Laguna Art Museum.

James is the advisor for the Game Development Club at SJSU.

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CODAME Featured Artist: Reza Ali

Reza is a computational designer/creative technologist/multi-faceted hybrid engineer who is interested in everything from design to biology to entrepreneurship. He is interested in human computer interaction (interaction design), architecture/product design, software, mobile technology/hacking, generative visuals, algorithmic art, data visualization, audio-visual interactive immersive environments, new media tools for DJs/VJs/Performers, Trans-Architecture, photography, graphic design, user interfaces, electronics, 3D animation, modeling, rendering and scripting. Some of his goals are to create content and interactive controllers for multimedia performance systems, to create new and fun models of interaction, to create form/visuals/sounds though algorithmic processes, to create real-time computer graphics for virtual worlds, and to explore the realm of science and mathematics to make complex phenomena understandable and intuitive. He hopes to change the world by making a difference in how people use technology, design products and experience new media art and entertainment.

More about Reza on syedrezaali.com

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