new site

www.sarahkettleydesign.co.uk

Etsy

Hurrah!

It's only been a few years, but I have finally managed to start listing pieces on Etsy, the successful US craft sales site. This collection dates back to my years in London, and was originally sold through Craze Two in Clerkenwell.

Little Stories

I am currently an artist in residence at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee, situated in the Masters of Design studio with Hazel White, and attached to the AHRC project, Past, Present and Future Craft. This will last until Easter, and has been made possible by the SAC's pilot Crafts Bursary scheme. To document my stay, a new blog has been set up on Wordpress, called Little Stories. You can find it here.

Leiden symposium

1 - 3 pm, Lipsius 227, Leiden University

11th September 2008

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Keynote Speaker: Sarah Kettley (Edinburgh):Visualising Social Space with Networked Jewellery


Sarah Kettley will demonstrate and discuss her wearable interactive jewellery objects which are designed to be experientially rich as materials as well as on interactive level. Ensemble is an interactive collection of networked jewellery with gesturally determined real time musical output. Speckled Jewellery - an interactive suite reflecting and influencing socialisation was developed for her phD with the Speckled Computing Consortium (www.specknet.org). This work visualizes relationships as coloured lights between differing pendents, worn by five women retired from their professions who meet socially on a regular basis. Sarah Kettley is an artist researcher working at the intersections of craft and wearable technology, combining academic research with her own interaction design and contemporary jewellery practice. She worked with the Speckled Computing Consortium (www.specknet.org) to realise conceptual designs, and was supported by the Department of Silversmithing & Jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art while working on her PhD. Currently she is a research fellow at Nottingham Trent University working on the development of designs using stretchable sensors.

PDF: of images + text about two of Sarah Kettley's projects Article: Framing the Ambiguous WearableThesis: Crafting the Wearable Computer: design process and user experience Website: http://www.sarahkettley.com/

Plus short presentations by:

Taco Stolk (Amsterdam): Engaging Art + Science

An illustration of a few of his own projects and student projects. Taco Stolk is an artist and lecturer in the faculty of Image + Sound at the Hague Conservatory. Since 2000, he has also been initiator and head of the "ExtraFaculty" at the Academy of Art in The Hague. This programme examines the shifting and dissolving boundaries between art and other aspects of society, such as science, business and politics. In addition, he has given courses for the Media Technology Masters programme, Department of Computer Science, University of Leiden since 2001.

Vincent van Gerven Oei (The Hague Switzerland): Rules of Engagement

Lecture + Slideshow from the production Forty Years of Boredom 1968-2008 / Follow Us or Die (2008) by Vincent van Gerven Oei & Jonas Staal, presented in Tent., Rotterdam. Follow Us or Die extends Marxist theorist, Guy Debord's notion of the society of the spectacle into the 'digitalization' of society, based on a 'second life' and the evacuation of all human interaction. Masters Graduate ArtScience, Hague Conservatory. PhD student Media Philosophy, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switserland. Vincent van Gerven Oei is an artist, formerly of the art group EMPATHY™, and currently works in cooperation with Jonas Staal, a writer and translator. Current projects: 'Monument: A Liminal Sociography' for Stroom, Den Haag and a translation of Dick Raaijmakers' treatise 'De methode' ('The Method').
Website: http://www.vincentwj.nl/

Alex Reuneker (The Hague): Interacting with Literature

A view on literature, interactivity and its relation to issues of immersiveness. A recent graduate in the Media Technology Masters programme at Leiden University, He lectures in Interactive Media at the Hague University.
Website: http://www.reuneker.nl/

Sonja van Kerkhoff (Leiden Aotearoa/NZ): Touching issues of engagement

A few interactive and Virtual Reality art projects are introduced and placed in the context of how art works such as these could contribute towards a socially engaged discourse. A recent graduate in the Media Technology Masters programme at Leiden University, she is an artist, webdesigner and teacher.
Website: http://www.sonjavank.com/This symposium is organized by Kirsten Korevaar, Alex Reuneker and Sonja van Kerkhoff, students of the Media Technology Masters programme, Leiden University

Crafting the Wearable Computer

Finally, I have got around to putting these files together. Volume One is the main body of the thesis including the abstract, chapters, references and appendices. Volume 2 holds the published papers from 2004 - 2007.

Crafting the Wearable Computer: design process and user experience Volume One

Crafting the Wearable Computer: design process and user experience Volume Two

Crafting the Wearable Computer

Here is an attempt to make my thesis available online - single file download coming soon :)

Crafting the Wearable Computer: Design process and user experience
title page
abstract
acknowledgements
contents
list of figures
chapter one: Introduction
chapter two: Authenticity
chapter three: Authenticity and Craft
chapter four: Designing for the everyday: the lifeworld of a friendship group
chapter five: A Speckled Jewellery Network
chapter six: Evaluating for the everyday
chapter seven: Reflections and contributions
references
list of publications

Peacocks and Wallflowers

This is an abstract for a forthcoming paper in a special issue of Sage's Visual Communication on wearable technology. This promises to be a very interesting issue with contributions also from CuteCircuit, Stephen Barrass and High Tea with Mrs Woo. The expected publication date is October 2008.

Peacocks and Wallflowers: (in)visibility with digital jewellery
As a genre of Ubiquitous Computing, wearables inherited a paradigmatic ideal of disappearance, and until very recently, visibility was treated as a simplistic dichotomous issue of overt versus covert technology. In line with calls by theorists in New Media for oscillation between states of invisibility and reflection in the design of interfaces, this paper presents findings from a networked jewellery project which reconceptualise this problem as both situated and dynamic, revealing that wearable artefacts segue between high states of visibility and disappearance just as they afford their wearers new ways to maintain social presence.

with thanks to Anne Cranny-Francis for inviting me to contribute!

PMC award

mobile earrings in silver
Precious Metal Clay and enamel
2008






The necklace in PMC and 18ct which won Small Treasures last year has now attracted further attention with the Applied Arts Award from Visual Arts Scotland.


This work can be seen at the Royal Scottish Academy on the Mound, Edinburgh as part of the VAS annual members' exhibition until April 17.


There is also a new group of PMC work on show at The Scottish Gallery as part of Fired Up! Modern Enamel Jewellery until May 3 2008.

Sage journals

Sage are offering free subscription to their online journals till the end of November! sign up at http://online.sagepub.com/.
A god send for those of us outside academic institutions for however long.