Artist Talk – Digitale Kunst: Hannah Perner-Wilsons
Making as a means of experiencing other worlds
Hannah Perner-Wilsons
Department of DIGITAL
ARTS/ Ruth Schnell
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/ 
