calendar
2023
August 2023
ccc camp
2023
“Salon of Open Secrets” (SOS)
June 15 2023
Artis Talk in the Abteilung DIGITALE KUNST an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
April 2023 – October 2023
Look, No Screens – JUPITER Theater Production with Theater STRAHL and KOBAKANT
2022
August 2022 – April 2023
Mentee in the UdK’s Mentoring-Programm für hochqualifizierte Künstlerinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen auf ihrem Weg zur Professur
May/June 2022
Jury member for the Critical Making Mentoring program
May 2022
DRAFTS exhibition at the UdK, Berlin
February 2022
Hosting a Studio on the question of: How Tangible is TEI? Exploring Swatches as a New Academic Publication Format at TEI’22, online and in Kaist, Korea
2021
November 2021
Showing work from Spiel und Object at the Next Level Festival in Essen, Germany
August 2021
Temporary tattooing people at PIFcamp
June 4 2021
Panel participat in the Crafting Technology, Crafting History session at the Crafting Change Symposium at Oberlin College
May 2021
2020 etextile swatch exchange
May 17 2021
Panel participat in the Feral Creative Practices Panel at the Uroboros 2021 festival and CreaTures project
May 15 2021
Improvising & Making talk at tinkertank
April 2021
CHAT symposium talk about KOBA
February 2021
TEI Student Design Challenge chair
January 2021
Live playing of Material_Adventures LEVEL2_ THE REMAKE in Authren, online
January 2021
Performance lecture at ART&&CODE about my etextile relationship
January 2021
recorded interview as part of the oral history archive
2020
March 2020
Participation in Game on Stage at FFT in Düsseldorf
March 2020 – September 2022
Guest professor in Spiel&&Objekt masters program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin
February 2020
Collaboration with Irene Posch and Martin de Bie at Volksluxus in Berlin
2019
December 2019
Kit-of-No-Parts workshop at TU Nürnberg
November 2019
Spekulative Objekte workshop at Spiel & Objekt masters program in Berlin
November 2019
Absurd Musical Interfaces hackathon at Queen Mary university in London
November 2019
hothouse-coolhouse residency
October 2019
Performance lecture and workshop at Kabuze co-sewing space in Greifswald
October 2019 – January 2020
faser – faden – fiktion course at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz
September 2019
Costumes for VHAN game at Futurium in Berlin
August 2019
Performance lecture “Make your tech and wear it too” at ccc camp
August 2019
Exhibition of Wearable Studio Practice gear at www.sommerlabor.net
June 10-14 2019
Digital Arts Workshop at Shakerag in Sewanee, USA
June
Workshops at ITP camp, NYC
2018
September 2018
KOBA at Retune in Berlin, Germany
September 15 2018
Our Tools, Our Senses Workshop at KWMC in Bristol, UK
September 12-14 2018
Presentation of Our Wearable Manifestos at Critical Costume 2018 in Surrey, UK
August 20-25 2018
KOBA School of Wickedfabrics
August 5-11 2018
Sense Yourself Making Node at PIFcamp in Soca, Slovenia
July 1-7 2018
An Underwater Studio Practice at DiNaCon in Koh Lon, Thailand
May 27 2018
KOBA presentation at Maker Faire Berlin, Germany
May 2018
Hiking Hack Valldaura in Barcelona, Spain
April 12 2018
ohmHook presented at SENTIRE ENHANCED SENSING CONFERENCE at Spektrum in Berlin, Germany
April-May 2018
Tools We Want exhibited as part of Stitching Worlds in Vienna, Austria
December 2017 – September 2018
KOBA by KOBAKANT – an E-Textile Tailor Shop for Wearable Technology in Berlin, Germany
2017
December 14 2017
Opening of KOBA by KOBAKANT – an E-Textile Tailor Shop for Wearable Technology in Berlin, Germany
October/November 2017
Fashionable Technology I course in Interface Cultures and Fashion Technology at UFG in Linz, Austria
September 2017
E-Textile courses at Fabricademy in participating FabLabs
July 30 – August 5 2017
E-Textiles and Wearables Node at the PIFcamp in Trenta, Slovenia
July 7-29 2017
Summer of E-Textiles in Paillard, France
June 26 – July 2 2017
VVunsch VVerkstatt participatory performance at the NODE Festival in Frankfurt, Germany
May 10 2017
Transparent and Dangerous II workshop at the Toronto Wearables Meetup at the Social Body Lab at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.
May 2017
Capturing Process collaboration with Adrian Freed in Berkeley, USA
April 24 2017
Transparent and Dangerous workshop in the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA
March 2017
Residency at the Hybrid Craft Lab in Jerusalem, Israel
February 20-14 2017
Introductory Course on Electronics as Material at CIID in Copenhagen, Denmark
January 2016
Design and Innovation Lab at New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
2016
December 14-17 2016
Fashionable Technology I: Material Mechanisms for Utopian Uniforms course in Interface Cultures and Fashion Technology at UFG in Linz, Austria
December 11 2016
Making discussion as part of (no)action(no)space at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany
November 10-11 2016
Panel presentation and discussion at Make:Shift in Manchester, UK
November 28&29 2016
Pulp in Motion workshop at the Madtech course at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, The Netherlands
October/November 2016
Resident at The Montessori School in Lewes, UK
September/October 2016
Artist-in-Rresidence at Ljudmila in Ljubljana, Slovenia
July 25-31 2016
Participating in PIFcamp in Trenta, Slovenia
June 6-9 2016
Workshop and talk at Eyeo Festival in Minneapolis, USA
February – May 2016
Artist-in-Residence at Pier 9 in San Francisco, USA
January 2016
Design and Innovation Lab at New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
2015
December 11-12 2015
Adopting Swatches workshop at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin, Germany
December 3 2015
Performance of Battle Royal at the Next Level Conference in Dortmund, Germany
November 16-20 2015
Of Swatches and Pockets workshop at ECAL Interaction Design Masters in Lausanne, Switzerland
November 2&3 2015
Electronics Surgery workshop at the Madtech course at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, The Netherlands
September 10-20 2015
Weaving the Schmiedeperser at the Schmiede festival in Hallein, Austria
September 3-7 2015
Exhibition and performance of A Wearable Studio Practice at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria
July 26 – August 2 2015
E-Textile Summercamp in Poncé sur le Loir, France
May 12 2015
Animating Textiles workshop at the RCA Information Experience Design department in London, UK
May 11 2015
Fashioning Textile Sensors workshop at Parsons in Paris, France
April 27 – May 3 2015
Soft Sensors for Soft Bodies workshop, workshop summary presentation, and “Make your tech and wear it too” talk in the “Wearables, Prosthetics and the Future of Fashion” panel at NODE festival in Frankfurt, Germany
April 6-12 2015
Sounding Textiles workshop at STEIM in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 13 – June 7 2015
Exhibition of The Crying Dress at Lentos in Linz, Austria
March 9-11 2015
Introductory Course on Electronics as Material at CIID in Copenhagen, Denmark
February/March 2015
Hacking the Wild as part of the Dissemination Lab expedition to the highest peak of the Anosyan mountain range in southern Madagascar, Africa
February 4 2015
Visit and short demo of The Sound of Nature at the Ecole Polytechnique Vontovorona in Antanarivo, Madagascar
January 2015
Design and Innovation Lab at New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
2014
November 5-25 2014
Exhibition of Eight Steps, A Kit-of-No-Parts, The Tilt Sensing Quilt and Textile Sensor Demos II at the
High Low Tech Exhibition at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, USA
October 23 – 26 2014
Exhibition of Textile Sensors and Soft Circuit Techniques as part of the “Textiles Handwerk” Exhibit at the Wiener Modellbaumesse/Ideenwelt in Vienna, Austria
October 22 2014
Eine Stunde Netzbasteln von und mit Moritz Metz, bei DRadio Wissen
October 11 2014
“All my segments are belong to you” Workshop at the Wear It Festival in Berlin, Germany
October 6-8 2014
Technical Intimacy Workshop and Symposium at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands
September 11-22 2014
E-Textile Live Performance Workshop at the Schmiede Festival in Hallein, Austria
July 19-27 2014
E-Textile Summercamp in Paillard, France
June 30 – July 4 2014
Gloves performance at NIME in London, UK
June 11 – October 5 2014
Exhibition of the 2013 E-Textile Swatchbook Exchange in EXEMPLARY: 150 Years of the MAK – From Arts and Crafts to Design at MAK in Vienna, Austria
May 19 2014
A Kit-of-No-Parts guest lecture at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in Berlin, Germany
May 15, 16 2014
Wearables workshop at F-A-S-T in Dresden, Germany
May 5-9 2014
Introductory Course on Electronics at CIID in Copenhagen, Denmark
March 2014
TRIBE Residency organized by Amber Platform and hosted by MauMau in Istanbul, Turkey
February 2014
Second edition of the Wish Lab project in Anyang, South Korea
January 2014
Design and Innovation Lab at New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
2013
December 7 2013
DressCode workshop at FabLab Berlin, Germany
November 23 2013
Handwerk und Elektronik workshop at Subnet in Salzburg, Austria
November 23 2013
Handwerk und Elektronik workshop at Subnet in Salzburg, Austria
November 16, 17 2013
Kinder Egg WishLab at the interfiction conference in Kassel, Germany
September 26 2013 – August 31 2014
Eight Steps is part of the Shifting Paradigms: Fashion + Technology exhibition at the Kent State University Museum in Ohio, USA
September 23 2013, 16:00
Kit-of-No-Parts/Traces with Origin workshop at Schmiede in Salzburg, Austria
September 22 2013, 18:00
Traces with Origin talk at Schmiede in Salzburg, Austria
September 9-31 2013
Subnet Artist-in-Residence in Salzburg, Austria
August 23 2013
DressCode workshop together with MzTEK at Shambala in England, UK
July 17-21 2013
E-Textile Summercamp in France
July 5-6 2013
Presenting at the Open Design / Shared Creativity International Conference in Barcelona, Spain
June 6-18 2013
Wish Lab project in Anyang, South Korea
May 11 2013
Open Fashion and Technology panel at codemotion in Berlin, Germany
May 9 2013
Arduino meets Wearables workshop at codemotion in Berlin, Germany
April 13 & 26 2013
Tinkering with Textiles and Electronics workshop at Betahaus in Berlin, Germany
February 24 2013, 1-6pm
Soft and Tiny Pillow Speaker Workshop at Betahaus Maker Weekend in Berlin, Germany
February 6, 7 2013
Talk and intervention as part of the course Studio Objet Augmenté at ENSAD in Paris, France
January 29 – February 1 2013
Gloves Workshop at the MusicMakers Hacklab event at CTM.13 in Berlin, Germany
January 4-26 2013
Design and Innovation Lab at New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
2012
November 23, 24 2012
Designing for the loop workshop held as part of the Beta Textiles Lab at V2 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
November 16,17,18 2012
Soft & Tiny Arduino Workshop at Atilier Nord in Oslo, Norway
September 29, 30 2012
Fabric Speakers, Textile Sensor Demos II and A Kit-of-No-Parts on show at the World Maker Faire in New York, USA
September 28 2012
Guest lecture and Embroidered Speaker workshop in Catarina Mota’s Tech Crafts class at ITP in New York, USA
September 27 2012
Talk and demo on A Kit-of-No-Parts at the Open Source Hardware Summit in New York, USA
September 6-24 2012
Bicentennial Swedish-American Exchange Fund Grant for the realization of Involving the Machines, in Boras, Sweden
August 29 2012, 7 to 10pm
Presentation of The Crying Dress at the Technosensual Symposium in Vienna, Austria
August 20 – September 2 2012
Exhibition of The Crying Dress as part of the Technosensual Exhibition, in Vienna, Austria
August 26 2012
Human Hacked Orchestra workshop together with MzTek and Guerilla Science at the Shambala Festival in England, UK
July 28+29 2012
Embroidery gone Electronic workshop in Vienna, Austria
July 1-31 2012
Museums Quartier (MQ) residency to produce a new work titled “Electricity Has Expensive Taste” for the Technosensual Exhibition, in Vienna, Austria
June 20, 2012
Falling in Love with Technology High-Low Tech workshop for educators at the University of Illinois at Chicago in Chicago, USA
June 13, 2012 7-9pm
Talk at Wearable Tech and E-Textiles Meetup in San Francisco, CA
June 12, 2012 11am – 4pm
E-Textiles Open Lab at CNMAT in Berkeley, CA
April 22 2012, 7:30pm BST
Imogen Heap performs Me the Machine live using The Gloves for the first time in London, UK
April 11-29 2012, Wednesday-Sunday
Saiah’s performance of Rua|Wulf features a pulsating cape and flowers, at the Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, GA
2011
December 22 2011
Visiting the Design Research Lab in Berlin, Germany
December 5, 12 2011
Electric Embroidery sessions at One Love Generation in Atlanta, GA
November 30 2011
Guest lecture at Daniela Rosner‘s (Extra)ordinary Materials class at CCA in San Francisco, CA
November 10 2011, 6-8pm
Open studio during the MOCA GA ArtMERGE event at The Goat Farm, in Atlanta, GA
October 23-30 2011
Design and Innovation Lab at the New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
October 14 2011, 8pm-midnight
Exhibition of A Kit-of-No-Parts (progress samples), Hard vs. Soft and Tools for E-Textile Techniques at The Second Coming exhibition organized by The Creatives Project at the Goat Farm in Atlanta, GA
October 13 2011, 1:45-3pm
Presentation at the IDMAA Wearables Panel in Savannah, GA
October 2011 – 2012
CCHP Artist-in-Studio Residency and One Love Generation mentor at the The Goat Farm in Atlanta, GA
September 19 2011
Open Culture + Wearables panel presentation and workshop at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey (Mika will be representing KOBAKANT)
September 10 2011
Textile Sensor demos on show at the Mini Maker Faire in Atlanta, GA
September 6 2011 – January 2 2012
The Tilt Sensing Quilt will be shown as part of the Power of Making exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, UK
August 19 – September 2011
Eight Steps will be shown at the Soft Technology exhibition in Bergen, Norway
June 2, 7-10pm
Textile Sensor Workshop at Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory in the Museums Quartier in Vienna, Austria
May 27 – June 30 2011
Eight Steps and Massage me will be exhibited at the Wiesner gallery in the MIT student center as part of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in Visual Arts exhibition in Cambridge, USA
January 24-26 2011
Presentation of Handcrafting Textile Interfaces from a Kit-of-No-Parts paper at the TEI conference in Funchal, Portugal
January 23 2011
Fine Bookbinding meets Electronics studio at the TEI conference in Funchal, Portugal
January 17-21 2011
Screen-printing circuit poster workshop at ENSAD in Paris, France
2010
November 27,28 2010
Wearable Sound Toy Orchestra workshop at the Motra Sesc de Artes in Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 25,26,28 2010
Perfect Human performance at the Motra Sesc de Artes in Sao Paulo, Brazil
October 14 2010 – January 1 2011
Eight Steps on show in the Designing Machines exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel
August 16,17 2010
Handcrafting Textile Mice workshop at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference in Arhus, Denmark
August 14 2010
Paintable Electronics workshop at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA
May 2 2010
Electronic Quilting workshop during the Cambridge Science Festival in Cambridge, MA
May 1 2010
Paintable Electronics workshop during the Cambridge Science Festival in Cambridge, MA
March 24-26 2010
Presentation of the Tilt and Time Sensing Bracelets and Handcrafting a Textile Sensor workshop at the Student Interaction Design and Research conference (SIDeR) in Umea, Sweden
March 15-18 2010
Wearable Sound workshop at Atelier Nord in Oslo, Norway
January 26 2010
Handcrafting Textile Sensors from Scratch workshop at TEI in Cambridge, MA
January 15-24 2010
Participant in workshop collaboration between SCU and MIT Architecture and Media Lab departments held in Taipei, Taiwan
2009
December 13,14 2009
Handcrafting Textile Sensors from Scratch Workshop at AIA in Lisbon, Portugal
August 26 2009
Presentation of DIY Wearable Technology at the Wearable Materialities panel, part of the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Belfast, Northern Ireland
>> Download DIYWearableTech.pdf
July 25, 26 2009
Bend, sew, touch, feel, read workshop at the Constant Association for Art and Media in Brussels, Belgium
July 17 2009
Performance of the Perfect Human at the 3×3 Dance & Cross Art Collaboration in Findhorn, Scotland/UK
June 10 2009
Distance Lab Open Studio 005 Social TechStyles in Forres, Scotland, UK
May 21, 22 2009
Two day workshop at the Puppeteering department of the Hochschule für Schaupielkunst, Berlin, Germany
May 20 2009
Performance of the Perfect Human during the Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology event at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Netherlands
May 20 2009
Lecture at CorssLab of the William de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
May 16, 17 2009
Two day DIY Wearable Technology workshop followed by a presentation of the workshop outcome during the Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology, all at the V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, Netherlands
May 1 – June 21 2009
Massage me will be exhibited at the ALICE Museum Exhibition at the SOMA Art Center Nabi in Seoul, Korea
April 5 2009
Fabric Bend Sensor workshop at DIY for CHI in Boston, USA
March 19 2009
An evening with Distance Lab at the Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland
February 1 2009
Interactive T-Shirt workshop at Un.Plug in Basel, Switzerland
January 23 2009
Fabric Pressure Sensor workshop at the NOMADS research lab at the Center for Interactive Living Studies of the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Carlos, Brazil
January 22 2009
Fabric Pressure Sensor workshop at Campus Party Brazil in Sao Paulo, Brazil
January 19-25 2009
Exhibition of Massage me at Campus Party Brazil in Sao Paulo, Brazil
January 2009
Massage me footage will be featured on the Maker Channel on public television in North America and on the Internet
2008
December 19-28 2008
Exhibition of Massage me at the Technology and Sports Fair, Feria de Madrid, Spain
December 19-23 2008
Exhibition of Massage me at the Touch me Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
December 8 2008, 10.30am
Wearable Technology talk at EMPA Material Science and Technology Institute in St. Gallen, Switzerland
December 7 2008
Joy Slippers were awarded first place in the Engineering category at the DIY Art and Technology Festival in Zurich, Switzerland
December 5-7 2008
Electronic Textile workshop and exhibition of Joy Slippers and Massage me at the DIY Art and Technology Festival in Zürich, Switzerland
November 5-9 2008
Exhibition of Massage me at Transgenesis in Prague, CZ
October 30, 31, November 1 2008
Performance of Perfect Human at the Post Me_New ID Forum, during the CYNETart_08 Festival in Dresden, Germany
October 18,19 2008
Exhibition of Massage me at the Maker Faire in Austin, Texas
September 26, 7-12pm 2008
Exhibition of Massage me during the Long Night of Science in Linz, Austria
September 4-7 2008
Performance of Perfect Human during the Interface Cultures @ Ars Electronica 2008 Festival exhibition in Linz, Austria
July 28 – August 3 2008
Massage me exhibition and DIY workshop at Campus Party Spain in Valencia, Spain
July 15,16 2008
Massage me workshop at Digital Day Camp at Eyebeam, New York
June 23-29 2008
Massage me exhibition and DIY workshop at Campus Party Colombia in Bogota, Colombia
June 21-29 2008
Massage me exhibition and DIY workshop at De-Day in Beijing, China
May 22, 6pm 2008
Presentation of Massage me at the Fashionable Technology Book Launch at Eyebeam, NY, USA
May 4 2008, 9pm
Performance of Ein Kleines Puppenspiel using the Puppeteer Motion-Capture Costume during the Stuttgarter Trickfilm Festival in Stuttgart, Germany
May 3-4 2008
Exhibition of Joy Slippers at the Maker Fair 2008 in the Bay Area, USA
April 25 2008
Presentation of Massage me at Second Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, USA
April 18 – September 22 2008
Exhibition of Massage me in HOMO LUDENS LUDENS – Locating play in contemporary culture and society, organized by Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation in Gijon, Spain
March 28, 8pm 2008
End of one month residency at LEMUR with the performance of Language Game at LEMUR, League of Electronic Muscal Urban Robots, in Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 13 2008
Fabric Pressure Sensor workshop with Mika Satomi as a guest lecture at Parsons School of Design, New York
2007
November 24 2007
Performance of Ein Kleines Puppenspiel using the Puppeteer Motion Capture Costume at the Festspielhaus Hellerau as part of the CYNETart07_encounter in Dresden, Germany
November 24 2007
Exhibition of Massage me at the MB21 Festival in Dresden, Germany
September 6-11 2007
Exhibition of Massage me at the Campus 2.0 @ ARS Electronica 2007, Linz
July 20,21 2007
BIP (Building Interactive Playgrounds) exhibition of DIY game controllers developed during the 3 day Touchdown workshop, outside Florence
July 12-21 2007
Exhibition of My Weimar Room as part of the Photoschrebergarten (Engl. Photography-allotment) at the Bauhaus University, Weimar
July 12-15 2007
Work in progress exhibition of Massage me at the Bauhaus University Mediengang, Weimar
February 1 2007
Exhibition of Cornering Light at the LichtBlicke presentation in the Van der Velde Bau of the Bauhaus University, Weimar
January 18,25 2007
Opening of Something to Stare At as part of the Spitz Hotel’s “Design it!” project, Linz
2006
October 17 2006 – February 18 2007
Industrial Design/ Scionic exhibition at at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna
October 12 2006
Week-long access to the website Kein Gedankenloser Transport in the computer room of the ARS Electronica Center due to an honorary mention at the Marianne von Willemer Netz Kunst Preis in Linz
August 31 – September 5 2006
Exhibition of COWSinTHEfield, Clothing that arranges the body- and Kein Gedankeloser Transport at the Interface Cultures@ARS Electronica 2006 festival, Linz
August 18-20 2006
Screening of ‘through my jumper’ and Kein Gedankeloser Transport at the OneMinute film festival in Aarau/Switzerland
May 16-19 2006
Exhibition of recipetable at the Automatica trade fair in Munich
May 6 2006
Exhibition of COWSinTHEfield at the anniversary celebration of Artifex in the OK Center, Linz
May 6 – October 20 2006
Exhibition of Kein Gedankeloser Transport at Forum Produktdesign “Zukunft made in Solingen”, Solingen/ Germany
May 2 – October 1 2006
Interface Cultures show reel at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna
April 6 2006
“Hob nur G’schaut” Industrial Design/ Scionic Fest in the Tiefgarage in Urfahr. First presentation of COWSinTHEfield
with 2 beamers and real grass.
March 27-31 2006
Exhibition of ARGE Zweirad Stoffmuster at the BA-CA Kunstforum in Vienna/Austria
March 8-10 2006
Screening of ‘through my jumper’ at the Frauen Film Fest Linz, from 5-10pm at 6 different locations in Linz
2005
November 9 2005
Honorary mention of through my jumper at the Goldener Defin amateur film award, Engerwitzdorf/AT
October 7-9 2005
Exhibition of recipetable at the best off 05 at the Art University in Linz
September 2005
Screening of through my jumper at the WOLKE7 short film festival in Vienna/Austria
September 1-6 2005
Exhibition of recipetable at Interface Cultures at ARS Electronica 05
June 2005
Exhibition of through my jumper as a flip-book at the first Daumenkinofestival in Linz/Austria