JERSEY CITY, NJ.-As part of the museum’s Sunday Sampler series, Jersey City Museum and _gaia are pleased to present “threads” Wearable Art Fashion Show on Sunday, February 24th, 2008. The event, which is free and open to the public, will highlight the work of 20 artists and designers who are combining non-traditional materials and/or technology to create wearable designs.

An artist talk at 1pm will feature Despina Papadopoulos, an interactive designer and director of Studio 5050. She will be joined by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl, the founders of burdastyle.com.

In a runway show at 2pm, “threads” will showcase the work of a diverse group of artists and designers incorporating various media including painting, physical computing technologies, crochet, sculpture, textile, video, and performance into their wearable designs. Artists and designers featured: LoVid, Christina Mancuso, Johana Moscoso, Jenny Chowdhury, Julie Blanciak, Kate Hartman, Juliana Cope, Gwen Charles, Pollie Barden, Geraldine Juarez, Norene Leddy, Gailene McGhee St.Amand, Zawadi, Giana Gonzalez, Sonali Sridhar, Danielle Fotopoulos, Stephanie Tichenor, James Tichenor and Amanda Mayoff.

The Jersey City Museum is located at 350 Montgomery Street at Monmouth in the Historic Downtown District of Jersey City, within walking distance of the Grove Street PATH and Jersey Avenue Light Rail stations. For more information, visit www.jerseycitymuseum.org or call 201-413-0303. Admission is $4 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, and free for children under 12 and museum members. Admission is free for all on Thursday evenings from 5 to 8pm.

A great review of Platforms/Aphrodite Project on Neural.it:

http://www.neural.it/art/2007/09/platforms_promotion_and_safety.phtml [English]
http://www.neural.it/art_it/2007/09/platforms_zeppe_per_lautopromo.phtml [Italian]

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Come see for yourself.

In Her Shoes Redux at Gallery Aferro
73 Market St.
Newark, NJ
Installation, performance and live demos
part of Desiderium, curated by Evonne M. Davis
www.aferro.org

To download a brochure on our programs during the exhibition, click here.

We are thrilled to be in the fall 2007 issue of $pread magazine, “Shoes that could save your life” by Erin Siegal. Please, please run out and buy one, or better yet subscribe www.spreadmagazine.org.

Interview with Norene Leddy from artfuture.com at the Maker Faire:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BDgsF69wLLE

Interview with Eyebeam’s Joanna Raczkiewicz from bloggingnext.com at NEXTFest:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZAu4KUGitoM

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…check out her website and podcast at http://susiebright.com, we’re in podcast episode 269.

Just got back from Interface + Society at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) in Oslo. This was a 2 day conference and exhibition produced by Atelier Nord, for more details on the conference: http://anart.no/projects/interface-and-society. Platforms was included in the exhibition (up Nov. 10-19), along with some other great pieces by Agnes Meyer-Brandis and AbA Logic and more.

In addition to the show at HOK, we had a storefront display and panel discussion in Oslo’s red light district. Pix are posted to flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/platforms. The panel was fantastic: Liv Jessen (PRO-senteret), Janne Wintherbauer (PION), Nina Tangnæs Grønvold (Oslo AP/LO), Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen (Elektronisk Forpost Norge) and me, moderated by May-Len Skilbrei (FAFO). It was a passionate 2 hour discussion about sex work in Norway and the US, with an emphasis on the volatile situation in Norway. Will podcast it as soon as I’m able. After the panel, the audience was able to try on two pairs of the prototype platforms.

Norway’s largest paper wrote about the panel http://www.dagbladet.no, and the panel and show are in the blogosphere: http://www.free-soil.org, http://blog.b92.net, http://www.creativeurope.com, http://underskog.no.

Other recent press includes The Telegraph in Calcutta http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061030/asp/knowhow/story_6933555.asp.

Copenhagen is next, Ed Bringas + Melissa Gira will be bringing Platforms to the Nordic Exceptional Trendshop 2006 December 1 + 2 + 3 http://www.next2006.dk

Norene

Platforms is featured in the Desire issue of Drain magazine, and the Platforms P.S.A. is part of “Sisyphean Desires, Systems and Devices” at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, GA, curated by Avantika Bawa (opening Nov. 4).

We’re also part of the Visualizing TRANS exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Interface & Society at HOK in Oslo, Norway opens Nov. 10, so we’re working to get 2 more pairs of performance shoes ready to go. There will be a panel discussion and performance, details TBA.

Ed & Melissa will be bringing Platforms to Copenghagen in December, so stay tuned…