Artist Talk – Digitale Kunst: Hannah Perner-Wilsons
Making as a means of experiencing other worlds
Department of DIGITAL ARTS/ Ruth
Schnell
Hannah Perner-Wilsons will give an inside into her work, which combines conductive
materials and craft techniques to develop new styles of building electronics that emphasize materiality and process. A significant
part of her work goes into documenting and disseminating her techniques so that they can be applied by others.
"I am an inventor who likes to tell stories. But my stories are not the kind that
I can simply 'tell'. Rather, they are worlds, situations, creative processes in which I want to involve you, so that you can
spin your own narratives. As a storytelling inventor, I design and build interactive artifacts that lure you into my thinking.
Working with soft technologies (electronic textiles and wearable technology) provides me with much opportunity for unusual
aesthetics and interactions, as means of accessing your imaginations." (Hannah Perner-Wilson)
Hannah Perner-Wilsons
received a B.Sc. in Industrial Design from the University for Art
and Industrial Design Linz and an M.Sc. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media
Lab, where she was a student in the High-Low Tech research group. Her
thesis work focused on developing, documenting and disseminating a Kit-of-No-Parts
approach to building electronics. Since 2006 she has been collaborating with Mika Satomi, forming the collective KOBAKANT.
Together they produce work that pokes fun at technology in their lives, and they maintain an online database titled "How To
Get What You Want", where they share their textile sensor designs and DIY approach to E-Textiles. The past three years Hannah
Perner-Wilson had a guest professorship in the Spiel&Objekt Masters program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst
Busch in Berlin.https://www.plusea.at/http://www.howtogetwhatyouwant.atwww.kobakant.at/ 
