Category Archives: Fashioning Technology

dancer in flight

Streb Essentialist Acts ~ Costume Brainstorm : Act I

Fashioning Technology : Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Collaborators: Kemeya Harper, EunYoung Kang Assignment “Choose three to four Essentialist Acts from Elizabeth Streb’s Armory show description that interest you as a group. Begin brainstorming these acts with the following design questions in mind: How … Read More

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Human Enhancement, fashionably ~ Final Presentation ~ Cloak : Digital Camouflage

Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Cloak is fashion textile and mobile application that helps you regain and retain control of your digital identity.

cascade of beads obscures bargoers

Human Enhancement, fashionably : Revising Privacy ~ Concept Update

Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Inspiration Octopuses and cuttlefish. These animals change their skin color and, in some cases, skin texture to blend into their environment, using beautiful camouflage patterns to hide themselves from predators. Some species also use skin color to … Read More

selection of coats and camouflage textures

Human enhancement, fashionably…

Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Inspiration Octopuses and cuttlefish. These animals change their skin color and, in some cases, skin texture to blend into their environment, hiding themselves from predators. Some species also use skin color to communicate. Scenario Documentation is ubiquitous. … Read More

corner of crescent benches in library lobby

Transitional Collaborative Space ~ Notes Toward a Recontextualization of the Bobst Library Lobby

Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Assigned to document a social situation in an NYU environment, then “sketch and describe an alternative to [the] documented situation that reflects an augmentation, intervention, or recontextualization of the social paradigm,” I decided to visit the Elmer … Read More