Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Wear Now Symposium

Wear Now Symposium

Friday 2nd February
5:00pm to 7:30 pm
On the last day of the reSkin lab we’re throwing open the lab doors to invite the public in to see the prototypes artists have been working on. Come along for informal discussions, wearables viewings and drinks with reSkin artists and facilitators. Launch of Filter wearables edition.
Venue: The Textiles Workshop and Foyer Gallery at The School of Art, Australian National University, Building 105, Childers St, Acton, Canberra, ACT.

Saturday 3 February
10-10:20 Welcome Dr Melinda Rackham ANAT Executive Director
10:20-12:00 Wearable Histories
Assoc. Professor Joanna Berzowska and Dr. Stephen Barrass Panel Chair Nigel Lendon, Associate Head of School, School of Art, ANU.
12:00-1:30 Wearables Now
Elise Co, Susan Cohn and Angela, Rowena and Juliana Foong of High Tea with Mrs. Woo label Panel Chair Valerie Kirk, Head of the Textiles Workshop ANU.
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Wearables Research and Development
Robin Cranston (CSIRO) Oron Catts (Symbiotica) and Sarah Kettley (Arts and Science Research Fellow, Napier University, Edinburg). Panel Chair Gordon Bull, Head of School of Art, ANU.
4:00-5:30 reSkin Outcomes
Dr. Alistair Riddell and Cinnamon Lee and demos from participants. Panel Chair Eleanor Gates-Stuart, Head of CNMA, ANU.
5:30-5-50 Closing Statement
Catrina Vignando, General Manager, Craft Australia
6:00-7:00 Informal Drinks
7:30 Symposium Dinner at The Chairman and Yip

Venue:
Visions Theatre
National Museum of Australia
Lawson Crescent
Acton Peninsula
Canberra
Acton ACT

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