RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
BOOKS
Regenerative Punk™ in progress
Computational Fashion, Topics in fashion and wearable technology, co-edited with Paul Amitai 2014
Functional Aesthetics, Visions in Fashionable Technology, SpringerWienNewYork 2010
Fashionable Technology, The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology 2008
SpringerWienNewYork
REPORTS
The Superhuman, Fashionable Technology Report 2012
Scientific Fashion, Fashionable Technology Report 2012
BOOK CHAPTERS
(* denotes peer reviewed)
*Fashionable Wearables, Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces. In Fashion in Context, edited by Gerda Buxbaum, SpringerWienNewYork, Austria 2009
Fashionable Wearables: Design & Technology. In Design360Grad, Designforum, Vienna, Austria 2008
*Fashionable Technology – The Next Generation of Wearables (Laura Beloff). In The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design, edited by Christa Sommerer, Lakhmi Jain, Springer-Verlag, Germany 2008
*Designing our Extended Body (Mika Satomi). In Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction, edited by Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Dorothee Gestric, Transcript, Bielefeld, Germany 2008
*The Garment as Interface. In Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology,
Idea Goup Reference, Canada 2008
SELECT RESEARCH PAPERS (* denotes peer reviewed)
*The Body as Biometric Encryption. In Proceedings of ISEA. Montral, Canada (Submitted) 2019
*Amplification of Energy (Lucas Vickers, Behnaz Babadazeh). In Proceedings of Ambience11, Sweden 2011
Fashionable Wearables, Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces. In Fashion in Context, SpringerWienNewYork 2009
Fashionable Wearables: Design & Technology. In Design360Grad, Designforum, Austria 2008
Designing our Extended Body (Mika Satomi). In Interface Cultures – Artistic Aspects on Interaction 2008
*Designing for the extended body – Hearing aids and transitive materials (Mika Satomi).
In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria 2007
*Mobile Communication versus Pervasive Communications: The Role of Handhelds.
In Proceedings of 2004 Mobile HCI 2004: 6th International Symposium, Springer-Verlag, Germany 2004
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD MEMBER
Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, Taylor & Francis since 2012
International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), IGI Global since 2008
Journal of Textile Engineering and Fashion Technology 2016 – 2018
REVIEWER
CHI 2016: Fashion Intelligent Wearables - Apps and Services for Smart Watches 2016
Austrian Science Fund: Creative Memories - Human App 2016
BOOK PEER REVIEWER
Bloomsbury, book on teaching wearables 2014
MIT Press, book on smart textiles and education 2011
Berg Publishing, book on fashion and technology 2011
Laurence King Publishing, book on digital fashion 2010
Berg Publishing, book on fashion and the digital age 2008
SELECT EDITORIAL
Forbes Magazine, Leadership: The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence, invited contributor 2022
positive & mindful leader, Happy Hour for Datavists, invited contributor 2020
Wattson (Portuguese), invited contributor, opinion piece. The original English version is on Medium. 2020
Kleidung mit Köpfchen, Published in Rondo Spezial, Der Standard, (newspaper magazine), Austria 2012
Intelligent Wearables - The future is now? Published in Profile (magazine), Helsinki, Finland, December 2004
Diffus durch die Dunkelheit leuchten. Ein Wearable als Schmuckstück. De:Bug #70 magazine, Berlin, Germany 2003
SPEAKER AND CURATOR
SPEAKING AGENTS & CORPORATE KEYNOTES
Singularity University, Faculty Member since 2020
Zukunftsinstitut, Professional Speaker, Germany 2019 – 2023
Select clients: Audi, BMW, Disney, e.ON, Autodesk, Bosch, Macy’s, Fujifilm, Lufthansa
INVITED KEYNOTES & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
* denotes peer reviewed
Panel, IEEE Women in Engineering, Toronto, Canada, online 2025
Unlocking the Power of Data: Data, AI and Innovation for Climate and Biodiversity Solutions, Ethical Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal 2024
Panel Innovation, Extreme Hangout, Cascais, Portugal 2024
The Economics Of Data Sovereignty: Democratizing Data, Iot & Data Driven Business Models, Singularity University Executive Academy, San Francisco, USA 2024
Data Design: Environmental data and the body, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Edinburgh, UK 2024
Digital Fairness, Data for Good, Laura Bassi 4.0 Conference, Vienna, Austria 2024
Urban Street Food – literally! with René Zimmermann, Vienna Design Week, Austria 2023
European Leadership Academy, NextGenChangeMakers, Brussels, Belgium 2023
Futur/io Executive Programme for Regenerative Futures, Lisbon, Portugal 2023
Digital Humanism: Data, Inclusion, and Body Sensors, Technical University, Vienna 2021
Data Cooperatives, Coop Summit, online 2021
Data Cooperatives, Digitale Montagsrunde Wien, online 2021
Singularity University Virtual CoVid-19 Summit, online 2020
Architectural Digest Summit on Sustainability, Munich, Germany 2019
Tokenizing the Creator’s Content, Medientage, Munich, Germany 2019
Positive and Mindful Leadership Summit, London, UK 2019
Meet the unexpected Healthcare Disruptors, Cannes Lions, France 2019
Tokenizing the Body, World Web Forum, Blockchain track, Zurich, Switzerland 2019
Tokenizing the Body, Blockchain Party Boat @ Web Summit, Lisboa, Portugal 2018
Tokenizing the Body, Keynote, DMEXCO, Cologne, Germany 2018
Dada Data, Resident, House of Beautiful Business, Lisboa, Portugal 2018
Data & Sports, WT @ ISPO, Munich, Germany 2018
SUPA, Flying Lab Lufthansa, onboard to CES, Las Vegas, USA 2018
Sensor, Japanese Society, New York USA 2018
Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Fashion, SXSW, curated the panel, Austin, USA 2017
Wear, Boston, USA 2016
Creative Tech Week, New York, USA 2016
The Evolution of Smart Textiles, Wearable Technology @ ISPO, Munich, Germany 2016
Keynote at the Opening of Fashion + Technology program, University of Applied Arts, Linz, Austria 2016
Sensors, Computational Fashion Salon, Soho House, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA 2015
Pioneer Mode, New York, USA 2015
Watch This Space: The Future of Wearables, Internet Week, New York, USA 2015
This Year’s Model: Fashion Design, Technology, and Wearables, Bklyn Designs, New York, USA 2015
Craft and 3D Printing, 3D Print Show, moderated the panel, New York, USA 2015
Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Technology, Lux Research Executive Summit, Boston, USA 2015
What Does An Art and Design Incubator Look Like? SXSW Next Stage, Austin, USA 2015
Finalist, SXSW Accelerator Wearable Technologies, Austin, USA 2015
Computational Fashion Salon: Where Digital Bespoke meets Traditional Craft, Soho House, 2014
curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA
Interconnected, A Global Summit on Wearables & Retail Innovation, organized by Decoded Fashion, New York, USA
Visionary: Inspiration, Incubation & Realization, 16th Annual New York Fashion Conference, organized by Initiatives in Art and Culture, with Sarah Scaturro (The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Joris Debo (Materialise), et al., New York, USA 2014
The Beauty of the Augmented Second Skin, TEDx Transmedia, Geneva, Switzerland 2014
Organizer and The Physical Impact of Wearing Technology, Wearing Technology: cultural and psychological impacts of tech on the body, organized by Eyebeam Art + Technology Center & The New School 2014
Computational Fashion: The Next Generation Wearables, by Rising Minds, Soho House, New York, USA 2014
New Paradigms of Interaction for Computational Fashion, d:Tech, Cornell University, New York, USA 2014
Fashion x Technology, organized by Made for Milk Studios, New York, USA 2014
Brandinnovators at Fashion Week, with Meg Burich (Adidas), New York, USA 2014
Computational Fashion, Zero Power Smart Fashion, New York, USA 2014
WEARTECHCON: Art+Design of Wearable Tech Startups - Design of Wearables Series, San Francisco, USA 2014
Keynote, Tech Couture. How Design Tech is Transforming the World of Fashion, Design Night, Autodesk, San Francisco, USA 2014
Keynote, Wearing a Sound Perfume, I am Digital, Wearable Technology Conference, New York, USA 2014
Opening The Skin as Metaphor, Computational Fashion Masterclass, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, hosted at NYU Poly, USA 2014
Second Skin, Golden Seeds Investor Forum, New York, USA 2014
Second Skin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Nanoelectronics Devices Laboratory (Nanolab), Lausanne, Switzerland 2014
Wearable Technology, Reimagineering Ideation Summit, Disney, Los Angeles, USA 2014
Computational Fashion, 3D printing for the Body, Internet Week, moderated the panel with Bradley Rothenberg, Duann Scott (Shapeways), Gabi Asfour, Joris Debro (Materialise), New York, USA 2014
The Skin as Metaphor, Leaders in Software and Art, New York, USA 2014
Second Skin, Textile Innovation Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2014
Who Designed Marilyn's Dress? Impact, Craft and Future of Film, with Francis Bitoni et al., NYU Steinhardt,
New York, USA 2014
Intellectual Property in Fashiontech, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA 2014
Decoded Fashion Meetup, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA 2014
Fashion & Technology, Wearable Demo Day, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center / Computational Fashion, curated and moderated the panel, New York, USA 2014
Fashionable Technology, School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland 2013
The Skin as Metaphor, Fiber Science & Apparel Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell, Ithaca, USA 2013
The Skin as Metaphor, Fashion Innovations, Arnhem Fashion Biennial, The Netherlands 2013
The Body as Metaphor, Smart Fabrics, San Francisco, CA, USA 2013
Solo The Skin as Metaphor, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA 2013
The Skin As Metaphor Computational Textile Interfaces, Material Innovation, Bregenz, Austria 2012
Special Guest at Opening, Technosensual – the Future of Fashion, Vienna, Austria 2012
Functional Aesthetics: Commercial Fashion with Technology, Texworld USA, New York, USA 2012
* Amplification of Energy, Ambience11, Boras, Sweden 2011
Networked Fashion, European Cultural Capital, Tallinn, Estonia 2011
Functional Aesthetics, Future Textiles, Herring, Denmark 2011
Functional Aesthetics, Smart Fabrics, London, UK 2011
Functional Aesthetics, TEDxVienna, Vienna, Austria 2010
Functional Aesthetics, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2010
Functional Aesthetics, V2 Expert Meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2010
Fashionable Technology, Kepler Salon, Linz, Austria 2009
Fashionable Technology, BIG Design Conference, Ljubjana, Slovenia 2009
Fashionable Technology, Coded Cultures, Yokohama, Japan 2009
The Future of Fashion Retail, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria 2009
Fashionable Technology, Wearable Technology – Powered Art and Fashion Design, 5 days-off Festival, Netherland New Media Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2009
Functional Aesthetics: Fashionable Wearables as Aesthetic Interaction Interfaces, Coded Cultures, Vienna, Austria 2009
Fashionable Technology, V2, Test_lab: Fashionable Technology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2009
Fashionable Technology: Aktuelle Beispiele Medialer Interfaces in der Mode, Fashion in Context, Vienna, Austria 2009
Fujifilm ZSpotNow: Fashion & Technology, New York, USA 2008
Fashionable Technology, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria 2008
Fashionable Technology oder Ein Chip zum Anziehen, designforum Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria 2008
Fashionable Technology, R/GA, New York, USA 2008
Fashionable Technology, New York University, Skirball New Media Center, New York, USA 2008
The Garment as Interface, Macy’s, New York, USA 2008
Function and Aesthetics in Fashionable Wearables, 6. Deutscher Designtag, Berlin, Germany 2007
*Designing for the extended body – Hearing aids and transitive materials, Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria 2007
Fashionable Technology - The Impact of Design on Innovations, Smart Textiles, Washington, DC, USA 2007
The Epidermis as Interface – Dynamic Textile Surfaces, Interface and Society, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway 2006
Collaborations and Innovations in Fashionable Technology, Fleshing Out, V2 & Virtuell Platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2006
Lecture: Emotionelle Kleidung – aus der Wunderkiste, Design-Tagung, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2006
Digitale Technologien und Handwerk , Mittwochsvision, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2006
The Epidermis as Metaphor, The Essential Balance of Function and Aesthetic Appeal, FO.AM Softwear, Brussels, Belgium 2005
How to Design Intelligent Clothing for Winter Sports, World Winter Forum, Vienna, Austria 2005
Interface Cultures, Mensch und Computer 2005 - Kunst und Wissenschaft - Grenzüberschreitung der Interaktiven Art, Linz, Austria 2005
The Epidermis as Metaphor: The Art of Creating Intelligent Clothing, 3rd International Avantex-Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany 2005
Mobile Communication vs Pervasive Computing: The Role of Handhelds, Mobile HCI 2004, Glasgow, UK 2004
Fashionable Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Outside/Inside: Boundary Crossings A Wearable Design Workshop, Inside/Outside: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence, Banff, Canada 2004
Fashionable Technology, Netzwerkstoffe, Luzern, Switzerland 2004
Wearable Experience, ISEA 2004, Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland 2004
SlopeStyle, Viper, Basel, Switzerland 2003
ACAR/2 - An Academy for Interactive Crafts, Basel, Switzerland 2003
New Media Education, Questions of Future, RAM3 - Reclaiming Cultural Territory in New Media, Tallinn, Estonia 2003
Poster, SlopeStyle, ISWC2003, White Plains, USA 2003
The Epidermic Interface: New Directions in Wearable Technology and Fashion, Numer02, Paris, France 2002
Fashionable Technology, Interstanding4: end repeat, Tallinn, Estonia 2001
Multi-Channel Project Management, WPM, New York, USA 2001
Pervasive Computing, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, USA 2001
E-Fashion, E-Fashion Symposia, Parsons School for Design, New York, USA 2001
Designing the Mobile Experience, Internet World, New York, USA 2000
Face Settings: Face2Face: Körper, Identität und Gemeinschaft um Cyberspace, Graz, Austria 1998
Neue Medien – neue Möglichkeiten, Zwischen Kritik und Kommerz, medianexus.net, Vienna, Austria 1998
CHAIR / ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER / JURY
Jury Member, BestOFF, Exhibition, Linz, Austria 2019
Chair, Computational Fashion, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, New York 2012 - 2016
Advisory Board, SXSW 2015 Accelerator, Austin, USA 2014-2015
Mentor, Interconnected, Global Summit, Wearables & Retail Innovation, Decoded Fashion, New York, USA 2014
Steering Committee, ZeroPower Smart Fashion, Event and Exhibition September 2014, New York, USA 2013-2014
Mentor, SXSW Decoded Fashion, Austin, USA 2014
Judge, Stichfest, UPenn, Philadelphia, USA 2014
Design Exhibition Juror, ISWC2012, International Symposium of Wearable Computing, Newcastle, UK 2012
Chair of Smart Textiles Committee, Ambience’11, Boras, Sweden 2010-11
Design Co-Chair, ISWC2009, Linz, Austria 2009
Jury Member, Prix Ars Electronica 2009, Linz, Austria 2009
Committee Member, Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display at Pervasive2008 conference, Sydney, Australia 2008
Mentor for Multimedia, Departure, Expertenpool, Vienna, Austria 2007 - 2010
Jury member, YDMI Award, German Design Conference, Berlin, Germany 2007
Jugend Innovativ, Jury member for Design, Austria Wirtschaftsservice, Vienna, Austria 2007
International Programming Committee Member, ISEA, Helsinki, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia 2004
Steering Committee, Wearable Technology, NYNMA (New York New Media Association), New York 2002 – 2003
CURATORIAL WORK
Sense Color, PONY EARTH Regenerative Lifestyle Salon Series with MyCoocoon, Portugal 2024
The Taste of Biodiversity, PONY EARTH Regenerative Lifestyle Salon Series with Soho House, Portugal 2023
Co-Curator, Moderator, Initiator, Computational Fashion Salon: Where Digital Bespoke meets Traditional Craft, Presenters: Meredith Finkelstein Chang (PAOM), Jamal Motlagh (Acustom Apparel), Lauren Slowik (Shapeways), Soho House New York, USA 2014
Curator, Alex Murray-Leslie, Chicks on Speed, presentation at NewInc, New York, USA 2014
Guest Curator as Exemplary honored for life’s work, Fashion & Technology, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria June 2014 – October 2014
Guest Curator, MAK Fashion Lab #02, Scientific Skin feat. Bare Conductive in collaboration with Fabio Antinori + Alicja Pytlewska (Textile as Skin), Curation of Video Collages: Artistic Explorations and Scientific Concepts, Curation of Skin as Textiles feat. Carol Christian Poell, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, October 2013 – February 2014
Curator, Fashion + Technology at NY Fashion Week Opening Ceremony BTW, commissioned by Cool Hunting, sponsored by Motorola/Google, New York, USA September 2013
Guest Curator, MAK Fashion Lab #01, Sonic Fabric feat. BLESS N°45 Soundperfume engineered by Popkalab, Curation of Video Collages: Sonic Textiles, Sonic Body, Sonic Interaction, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria June 2013 – October 2013
Co-Curator (with Gabi Asfour) and Organizer, The Future of Orchestral Garments, Parsons The New School for Design + Mannes College The New School for Music, (in collaboration with The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra), New York, USA May 2013
Curator, Networked Lives, corporate exhibition, VF Corporation, commissioned pieces by YESYESNO, Popkalab, Patricia Adler, etc. USA 2012
Guest Curator, Networked Fashion, European Cultural Capital, invited Daan Rosegarde, Trikotron, Tallinn, Estonia 2011
Curator, Organizer, Moderator, Fashionable Technology Event Series #02: Materials Explorations, symposium hosted at Parsons The New School for Design, School of Fashion, Intelligent Materials Workshops by Elisabeth Senneville hosted at School of Art, Media, Technology, Speakers: Matt Johnson, Bare Conductive, London, Elisabeth de Seineville, fashion designer & professor at ENSAD, Gayil Nalls, artist & researcher, olfactory, Alice Min Soo Chun, Parsons the New School, School of Constructed Environments, Assistant Professor, Design+Material Culture, New York 2011
Curator, Organizer, Moderator, Fashionable Technology Event Series #01: Functional Aesthetics, symposium, workshop, and book launch hosted at Parsons The New School for Design, School of Art, Media, Technology, symposium lectures by Stacey Burr (Adidas), Joe Savreeda, etc., exhibition and reception hosted at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York 2010
Curatorial Advisor, Human Nature, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria 2009
Curatorial Advisor, Ying Gao - Five Ways to Tell a Story about Fashion, Plug.in, Basel, Switzerland 2009
Curator and Concept, Fashionable Technology, Exhibition and Book Launch, curated exhibitors included: Kate Hartman, Mahir Yavuz + Ebru Kurback, etc. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York 2008
Co-Curator (with Andrew Chetty), My Cyborg Future, Discovery Museum and Dott07, Newcastle, UK 2007
International Programming Committee Member, Wearable Section, ISEA, Helsinki, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia 2004
Faculty Curator, Wear Me, Video Collaboration Studio: Fashionable Technology, Rotherham, England, UK 2003
Curator, E-Fashion, Symposia on Fashion and Technology, Parsons School for Design, New York, USA 2001
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
As an artist, researcher, and professor led class projects
BMW Guggenheim Love Night New York (developed as Fashionable Technology class project at Parsons) 2012
Ambience’11 at Swedish School of Textiles, research project at Parsons: Amplification of Energy 2011
MIT Media Lab, research project at Parsons: Amplification of Energy, sponsored by VFC 2011
VFC corporate exhibition, SlopeStyle 2.0 2011
Firehouse 13: Fabric Futures, SUN No1, Providence, USA 2010
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center: Functional Aesthetics, SUN No1, New York 2010
Ars Electronica Festival, SUN No1, Linz, Austria 2009
E-Culturefair, SlopeStyle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2003
Ars Electronica Festival, NOISIA | VISION with Tom Blue, Linz, Austria 1999
European Media Arts Festival, Grrrl Power Possie, part of the artist collective Faces, Osnabrück, Germany 1998
Ars Electronica Festival, Faces, part of the artist collective Faces, Linz, Austria 1998
SELECT RESEARCH GRANTS, CORPORATE COMMISSIONS & FELLOWSHIPS
Awarded to initiatives I instigated or organizations I lead
Austrian Ministry of Education, Art, and Culture, Book: Regenerative Punk, Austria 2024
Vienna Business Agency, Creative_pioneer, PONY EARTH, Vienna, Austria 2022
EUIPO SME Fund, PONY EARTH, Brussels, Belgium 2022
Austrian Research Agency, PONY EARTH, Projekt Start, Austria 2022
AWS discover.IP, PONY EARTH, Austria 2022
Vienna Business Agency, Creatives for Vienna Award, PONY NFT, Austria 2021
Austrian Research Agency, Ecology Grant for Social Impact Investing, Austria 2021
AWS Creative Impact Award for MOONDIAL as partner of EOOS Next for Nuria App for Toilet Lab, Austria 2020
Vienna Business Agency, Creatives for Vienna Award, SUPA Immune, Austria 2020
Austrian Ministry of Education, Art, and Culture, Austria 2014 – 2015
New School University, Research Assistant Fund Award, USA 2014 – 2015
New School University, Research Cluster Fund (The Body as Metaphor) with Prof. Miriam Steele, USA 2013 – 2014
Rockefeller Foundation Grant, awarded to Eyebeam for Computational Fashion, USA 2012 – 2014
Aalto University, awarded for Computational Cellulose (visiting researcher), Finland 2013 – 2015
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, gifted to Sabine Seymour at Parsons School of Design, USA 2012
VF Corporation, Urban Fashion, gifted to Sabine Seymour at Parsons School of Design, USA 2011 – 2012
BMW Guggenheim Lab, Painted Love, gifted to Sabine Seymour, USA 2011
New School University, Research Assistant Fund Award, USA 2012 – 2013
Parsons School for Design, Fashionable Technology Event, USA 2010 – 2011
Parsons School for Design, Sourcemap/MIT collaboration, USA 2010 – 2011
VF Corporation, Amplification of Energy, gifted to Sabine Seymour at Parsons School for Design, USA 2011
New School University, Research Assistant Fund Award, USA 2011
Parsons School for Design, Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Fellowship, USA 2010
Cultural Council, City of Vienna, Book: Functional Aesthetics, Austria 2009
Kunstuniversität Linz, Book: Functional Aesthetics, Austria 2009
BMUKK, Ministry of Education, Art, and Culture, Book: Functional Aesthetics, Austria 2009
Kunstuniversität Linz, Book: Fashionable Technology, Austria 2008
BMUKK, Ministry of Education, Art, and Culture, Book: Fashionable Technology, Austria 2007
AWS, Impulsprogramm, Book: Fashionable Technology, Austria 2007
Parsons Design Lab, Design Fellow, USA 2001 – 2003
DuPont & Palm Computing sponsorship for SlopeStyle R&D project and exhibition, USA 2003
BMUKK, Ministry of Education, Art, and Culture, Study: Fashion Design, Austria 2000
Joint-Study Scholarship, to attend Columbia University, Austria 1994
WORKSHOPS
Workshop Presenter and Concept, Computational Fashion Master Class, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, hosted by NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering (MAGNET), New York, New York 2014
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashion Lab #02 Workshop: Actuating The Body, with Bare Conductive, Museums of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria 2013
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashion Lab #01 Workshop: Wearing a Sound Perfume, with Bless and Popkalab, Museums of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria 2013
Workshop Participant and Concept, Sonic Fabric, with Chicks on Speed, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain 2012
Workshop Leader and Concept, Computational Second Skin, with Research Assistant Scott Peterman from MFA Design + Technology, Aalto University, Helsinki 2012
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students from Parsons who participated in the excursion and student from EnSAD, EnSAD, Paris 2012
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Smart Textiles, with Swedish School of Textiles, hosted for students from Parsons who participated in the excursion, Boras 2012
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology: Bare Conductive, hosted for students from Parsons and students and faculty from ArtEZ Fashion Master, Arnhem School of Fashion, Parsons, New York 2012
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students at Parsons, Parsons, New York 2012
Expert Workshop Participant, Future Textiles, Herring, Denmark 2011
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students from Parsons who participated in the excursion and student from EnSAD, EnSAD, Paris 2011
Workshop Leader and Co-Concept, Intelligent Materials, with Elisabeth de Senneville, hosted for students at Parsons, Parsons, New York 2011
Expert Workshop Participant, V2, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2009
Workshop Leader and Concept, Creating Experiential Designs with Fashionable Wearables, Master of Arts, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland, November 2008
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology, Swedish School of Textiles, Boras, Sweden 2008
*Workshop Participant, Ubicomp2007, Innsbruck, Austria 2007
Workshop Leader and Concept, The empire’s new clothes, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway 2006
Workshop Participant, Acar2, Craft, Design, and Media Technology, Senones, France 2006
Workshop Participant, Electronic Etheralism, New York, USA 2006
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology - The Epidermis as Metaphor, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Summer Design Institute, New York, USA 2003
Workshop Participant, ACAR/2 - An Academy for Interactive Crafts, Basel, Switzerland 2003
Workshop Leader and Concept, Fashionable Technology, RAM3 - Reclaiming Cultural Territory in New Media, Tallinn, Estonia 2003
SELECT APPEARANCES IN BOOKS AND ART CATALOGS
Rebecca Pailes-Friedman, Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabrics 2016
Shane Richmond, Computerised You, How wearable technology will turn us into computers 2013
Bradley Quinn, Textile Visionaires, Innovation and Sustainability in Textiles Design 2012
Bradley Quinn, Textiles Futures 2010
Avantex, Frankfurt, Germany (DVD) 2005
E-CultureFair, Amsterdam, Netherlands (DVD) 2003
RAM3, Tallinn, Estonia 2003
Ars Electronica, Infowar, Linz, Austria 1998
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany 1998
PRESS
DerStandard, Ziel ist die Demokratisierung der Gesundheit by Wojciech Czaja 2019
Forbes, Are you smarter than my clothing?, by Debrah Weinswig (online) 2016
San Francisco Chronicle, Wearable tech’s future looks bright by Carolyne Zinko (online) 2014
Interviewed for EE Times, Wearables Sing in Smart Clothes by Jessica Lipsky (online) 2014
Wired, June 27, A Novel Tech Incubator That Silicon Valley Wouldn’t Understand by Liz Stinson 2014
L’Officiel Suisse/Schweiz, Future Fashion by Katharina Sand (print) 2014
USA Today, Fossil and Google collab is first of many for wearables by Brandon Carte (print) 2014
Additionally featured in: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TechTimes, Cool Hunting, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, L’Officiel, Vogue, Disegno, PBS, NBC, BBC, Financial Times, Horizont Magazin, Springerin, Diivan, De:Bug, FSB Technology, MSN, Der Standard, Wienerin, Page, Hi!Tech by Siemens, WSGN, Wirtschaftsblatt, Businessoffashion.com, BBC, Die Presse, Trend
TELEVISION, RADIO & ONLINE VIDEO
ORF, Guten Morgen Österreich, television morning show 2023
Ö1, An der Schnittstelle zwischen Körper und Technik, Austria 2020
World Web Forum, Sabine Seymour Interview, Switzerland (online) 2019
Moneytoday.ch, Interview Blockchain, Switzerland (online) 2019
DMEXCO, Interview, Cologne, September 2018
Forbes, Apparel as data platform, USA (online) 2017
She’s Mercedes, Alter Ego, Mercedes Original Movie, USA (online) 2016
New York Times Video documentary (focused on MOONDIAL), USA 2015
TheVerge, “The future is now”, full video feature sponsored by Intel, USA (online) 2014
Vice / Creators Project, “#3 Human Experiences, Making it Wearable”, USA (online) 2014
Sparkfun.com, “Enginursday: To be a fly on the wall”, documentary of Zoomorphic, USA (online) 2014
PBS, The Future of Wearables, USA (online) 2013
NBC, Today Show, USA (TV) 2013
PBS Nova, The Secret Life of Scientist, USA (online) 2013
ORF (Austrian National Broadcasting), Newton, television documentary, Austria (TV) 2009