Dr Jane Harris is a leading artist, designer and theorist, who combines technological and material skills in the production of figurative installations. She was recently appointed Visiting Research Professor of Fashion Textiles at the UEL School of Arts and Digital Industries, .
In her inaugural lecture, Dr Harris will discuss how developments in digital technology are set to inspire our experience of future and historical textiles and dress. Citing examples from her own creative practice, she will show how digital media tools, including motion capture, body scanning and 3D computer graphic modelling and animation will deliver new paradigms in fashion and textile spheres as well as digital film and performance.
Dr Jane Harris is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Textile Futures Research Unit at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.In her practice, Dr Harris employs broad ranging technological and material skills in the making of digital artefacts, about which she also theorises, exploring process and concept.
Her Ph.D study involved enquiry into the value of material skills in aesthetically altering the potential of digital imaging media.Resulting 3D computer graphic (CG) animation work is informed by an earlier textile practice, which received the prestigious Art Foundation Award in 1994.Dr Harris' digital installation works have been widely exhibited at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, the Crafts Council and the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Currently a recipient of a NESTA fellowship to run from 2006-09, Dr Harris has also received awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Arts Council of England, the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation and Channel 4.As a visiting lecturer, Dr Harris has worked extensively in the UK and internationally. She has also served as an advisor to the Scottish Arts Council, the Arts Council of England and more recently the Arts and Humanties Research Board.
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Admission is free. To register your place, please contact Sian Harris on 020 8223 3405 or sian@uel.ac.uk.
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