Readings (FALL 2009)


Required

Electronic Textiles: Wearable Computers, Reactive Fashion, and Soft Computation
Joanna Berzowska

Mistaken Ancestry
Martin and Virginia Davis

Fabric PCBs, Electronic Sequins, and Socket Buttons: Techniques for E-textile Craft
Leah Buechley and Michael Eisenberg

E-Broidery: Design and fabrication of textile-based computing
E.R. Post, M. Orth, P.R. Russo and N. Gershenfeld

The Epidermis as Metaphor
FoAM

Why We Need Things
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Additional

The LilyPad Arduino: Using Computational Textiles to Investigate Engagement, Aesthetics, and Diversity in Computer Science Education
Leah Buechley, Mike Eisenberg, Jaime Catchen, and Ali Crockett

The Fingerprint of the Second Skin
Kitty Hauser

In the Shadow of the Cyborg: an interview with Joey Berzowska
Jake Moore

Material and the Promise of the Immaterial
Ingrid Bachmann

Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture
Lynn Hershman Leeson

Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture
Sadie Plant