![]() Irene Posch is a woman in STEAM who connects her engineering skills with her passion for art in various inventions. She shows her research through publications and exhibitions. She has been an artist in residence at Eyebeam Art&Technology Center New York (US), Teachers College, Columbia University (US), and more. Currently she is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology headed by Geraldine Fitzpatrick at Vienna Technical University. Her work has been displayed in many conferences and museums. She was a key researcher in a project called “Stitching Worlds”, where various projects combining craftsmanship and electronics. Textile technology is the base of the research, they use “textile machinery to translate patterns into electronic functions.” There is a whole website displaying the experimental designs they create. The research project is set up with different tracks of investigation. 1) experimentation 2) theoretical study 3) speculation 4) reflection and dissemination. This organized research is very interesting in Irene Posch’s collaboration with “Stitching Worlds.” Posch created an electromagnetically controlled embroidered textile. There is a magnetic bead sewn to a piece of textile and the two wires connected to copper piece on either side. If the wires switch sides the magnet will flip sides and vice versa. In addition, Posch made an embroidery computer with textile relays by using gold (conductive) embroidery and a programmable 8-bit computer. The embroidery computer is very aesthetically pleasing and also has specific patterns to make the computer the most efficient. The relays switch passing on information calculated from the instructions. In another collab Posch worked with Liza Stark to make a garment displaying how wireless energy works. When the coil, embedded in the garment, is touched on the shoulder is lights up the LED light on the center of the chest. They demonstrated how to transmit the, “ power from one induction coil to another.” A similar project Posch created was called “Drapery FM” where a knitted fabric with copper wire and wool is connected to nearby radio receivers. She programmed the fabric so that when it is touched the radios play an audio of how the textile was made. “Drapery FM” is beautifully displayed with a well designed textile programmed to play audio from radios. Sources http://www.ireneposch.net/about/ http://www.stitchingworlds.net/category/experimentation/ https://hackaday.com/2018/04/20/e-textiles-spring-break-tackels-signal-blocking-audio-generation-and-radio-transmissions/ "Drapery FM" video https://www.wired.com/2013/05/ebru-kurbak-and-irene-posch-drapery-fm/
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