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A British/Japanese artist who creates machines, robotics, music and videos exploring issues surrounding technology and pop culture. A graduate of London’s Royal College of Art, Sputniko!’s graduation piece “Menstruation Machine—Takashi’s Take” (2010), a device simulating bleeding and pain to mimic that of menstruation in order to allow men to understand the experience, was the first of her projects that caused ripples in the contemporary art scene and was just months later exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Since […]

Pamela Parmal began work at the MFA in 1999 as Associate Curator, became Curator and Department head in 2004 and was appointed Chair of the David and Roberta Logie Department of Textile and Fashion Arts in 2014. She oversees an encyclopaedic collection of textiles and dress, the highlights of which include Peruvian textiles, Japanese costumes, 18th century European and American embroideries, and cashmere shawls. She has curated a number of exhibitions including ‘Fashion Show: Paris Collections’ in 2006; ‘The Embroideries […]

Currently the Course Leader for the BA of Textile Design at Central Saint Martins, as well as Deputy Director of the Textile Future Research Centre (TFRC), both based at the University of the Arts London. Marr’s research is based around the socio-cultural context of textiles, particularly the area of Urban Fabric, exploring understandings and boundaries of different textile-based approaches to respond to societal or urban needs and to create more empathetic communities. Recent projects such as ‘Threads and Yarns’, supported […]

Curator of the Second Hangzhou Triennial of Fibre Art in 2016, co-curator of the ‘Social Factory: The 10th Shanghai Biennale’ in 2014, and curator of the ‘Resolution Power’ exhibition in West Bond 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art. Graduating from the Institute of Contemporary Art and Social Thoughts in China Academy of Art, Xiao – a former researcher in the Guangdong Museum of Art – has in recent years been deeply involved in large-scale academic exhibitions and the […]

A trained cultural historian and artist who uses academic writing and visual art practice to address issues in fashion. The discourse of cultural identities in the production of fashion and the cultural property of fashion are common themes in her work. Author of Fusionable Cheongsam (2007), she has written widely on the socio-cultural revolution of the Chinese dress, through which she has dissected the material culture in China. Current projects include an edited volume on Making Fashion in Multiple Chinas: […]

Associate Professor of the Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Member of the China Arts and Crafts Association; Member of the standing committee of Fiber Art Association of China; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jiang’s research focuses on technologies of physical and chemical treatments of textiles, he has been devoted to innovative fashion and textile designs. He has achieved breakthroughs in research on decorative and functional textiles and their usages in fashion design, […]

(Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Janis Jefferies is an artist, writer and curator. She is Professor of Visual Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, also working with early career researchers and with developing practice research. She trained as a painter (Sheffield School of Art, Maidstone College of Art and Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts) and in woven construction (Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, Poland) under Magdalena Abakanowicz. Jefferies is a pioneer in the field of contemporary textiles within […]

Ingrid Chu is a curator and writer based in Hong Kong with experience at leading museums and non-profit art organisations as Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Creative Time, New York; The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City; The Power Plant, Toronto; the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Chu’s reviews, interviews, and articles have been featured in international contemporary art and culture publications including Afterall, frieze, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Asia, Performa Magazine, […]

Professor of Social Anthropology, The University of Edinburgh. Francesca Bray is a historian of science, technology and medicine in imperial China, trained in Chinese studies and anthropology. As an anthropologist, Bray is fascinated by the macro- and micro-politics of technologies, past and present. She has specifically looked at how technology has expressed and shaped gender roles throughout Chinese history. In Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (1997) and Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China (2013), […]