Artist Karen Ingram melds the phylogenetic tree: fungi, which contain genes from bacteria, make intricate images of flowers. Throw in her pet lab robot “Ron,” and Karen’s workshop has the trappings of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse (I mean that in the most complimentary way).
For the first time, in the pages of How Tech Feel this Thursday, Karen explores the spark behind her unique art!
“I love, and also fear, the exquisite mess of biology. If I’ve learned anything from running my own academic lab, it’s that biology has a way of contaminating absolutely everything.” -Andrew Pelling, Breaking Bio
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Cozy up indoors and grab a mug of hot chocolate for our next issue on How Tech Feels ❄️☕️ Dierdre Shea and Julian Goldmans are two industrial designers rearranging the boundaries between work, family, and personal relationships. Their essay, “A Building is a Hypothesis,” is about making a nest. The nest is the studio, the studio is the dream, and family and friends are designed into it.
Out Thursday, January 29!
How Tech Feels is an experiment in how we talk about technology. Creation is a human endeavor and, therefore, an emotional one. We can laud the creative genius, but too often we ignore the inner churn that sets them on their path.
Contrasting the high-pressure world of fashion, Alison McCook shares the unlikely story of Friggles the Frog, a family pet that set her on the path to becoming a science journalist and editor at The Scientist, Nature, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Read “The Tech We Feel The Most” and “Friggles the Frog” now on howtechfeels.org or in our bio! Illustrations by Design Director Melissa Chen.
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“When you consider it, textiles are undoubtedly the technology we feel the most throughout our lives and days. They offer our bodies the most sensation. After all, we’re almost always enveloped in fabric—swaddled, dressed, or in bed. But with the omnipresence of screens, we lose sight—or in this case touch—of a technology that humans have been developing for more than 30,000 years, a technology with which we’ve biologically co-evolved, an influence evident in our body hair, sweat, and fine motor skills honed partly to make knots, sew with needles, and spin thread.” -Charlotte McCurdy
The Stanford textiles innovator and Philip Lim collaborator wrote a beautifully honest account of how it feels to invent a carbon negative fashion material—including the tangle of emotions, hopes, and anxieties that accompany innovation. The dress became a showpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. Consider this a teaser. We publish it on Thursday!
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“I think that we’ve become kind of a society of screens, of different layers that keep us from knowing the truth.” — Lynn Hershman Leeson, “The Electronic Diaries” (1984—2019)
Lynn Hershman Leeson is an American multimedia artist and filmmaker who has spent six decades exploring technology, identity, and surveillance with prophetic vision.
Image: “Seduction,” 1985, from “Phantom Limb”
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Howtechfeels.org is officially launched! Read Sue Huang and Ginger Dosier’s moving essays, accompanied by design director Melissa Chen’s illustrations, on our website now! Link in bio :)
Launching Monday, October 20th. A look into the essay of Ginger Dosier: architect, founder, and materials innovator.
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Innovation isn’t purely a technical phenomenon, it’s a cultural one. Culture shapes technology, technology shapes culture—and the wheel spins on. How Tech Feels distills this historical moment in essays written by the innovators and creators who are shaping it. Their hope, fears, practices, and visions will be shared in word, image, and illustrations.
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