The Future Affects the Past: Technology, Mysticism, Art and Play

February 10, 2019
11:00am

Join us at the cHURCH where Kathleen McDermott will present The Future Affects the Past: Technology, Mysticism, Art and Play. This is a free event. Bagels and coffee will be served.

For this event, McDermott will present an artist talk in which she will discuss how she uses electronics as a creative material to make strange wearables and robots, and why weird visualizations of the future matter.

Kathleen McDermott is a media artist with a background in installation and sculpture. She uses a combination of textiles, sculptural materials and open-source electronics to craft absurd wearable technology pieces that aim to explore the relationship between human bodies and technology, in both real and imagined scenarios. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Cornell University, an MFA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She is currently a Visiting Industry Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media (IDM) at NYU. Her work has been featured in a range of major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Dezeen, and has been exhibited internationally. In addition to her artistic practice, she is an advocate for accessible technology education, actively seeking opportunities to give workshops, and sharing tutorials for working with DIY electronics online at https://urbanarmor.org/.