"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/
