Upgrade! São Paulo: Wearable Computers: Spatiality, Sensory Experience, Mediation -Luisa Paraguai Donati :: April 26, 2008, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.

Luisa’s present research reflects about mobile technologies and several objects / gadgets, particularly the wearable systems, that explore other orders / configurations of the body in the space, as they introduce a digital context that overlaps / creates the physical domain and that bring not only social consequences but also other spatial and temporal dynamics of perception and action. In order to contextualize this research, it will presented project of several artists and personal experiences that discuss the understanding of body-space as a process cultural and technologically elaborated.

Luisa is PhD in Multimedia and MA from the Arts Institute of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Professor at the UNISC (University of Sorocaba) in the postgraduate program of Communication and Culture and also in the graduation courses. Reviewer of Leonardo Digital Review. Invited researcher at CAiiA-STAR, Plymouth, England, where she researched wearable computers. Artist and researcher in the field of art and technology, participating of several international exhibitions and conferences.