Maggie Orth - Resume

education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Media Arts and Sciences, 2001.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA
Master of Science of Visual Studies, 1993.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1986.

professional experience

  • Maggie Orth’s International Fashion Machines, Inc., CEO and Founder, 2001 – present.
    Founder, Director of Design and Research. Work at IFM includes designing, engineering, researching and developing interactive and electronic textiles for art, design products, fashion and private research. Work at IFM also includes technology development for fashion companies, patent writing, technology commercialization, and business development. Artworks created include electronic color change textiles (drive electronics, software, conductive fiber weaving and connection processes) and commissioned textile sensor and light artworks created for the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, The Ontario Science Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design. Design work at IFM includes products, (Pom Pom Light Dimmer and tufted Essential Dimmer), engineering textile processes and structures. IFM clients and partners include Dupont, The North-Face, Triton Systems, E-ink, Motorola, and Boeing.
  • Research Affiliate, University of Washington, Computer Science Department, Seattle WA, 2004 – 2006.
  • Toy Symphony, Design Director and Production Manager, Cambridge, MA, 1999 – 2000.
  • MIT Media Lab, Research Assistant, Cambridge, MA, 1997 – 2001.
  • MIT Media Lab, Teaching Assistant, Computer Music Class, Tod Machover, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
  • MIT Media Lab, Teaching Assistant, Tangible Interfaces Class, Hiroshi Ishii, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
  • MIT Media Lab, Brain Opera, Production Designer and Director, Cambridge, MA, 1995 – 1996.
  • MIT Media Lab, Research Affiliate, Cambridge, MA, 1995 – 1996.
  • MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Research Affiliate, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
  • Community Art Center, Computer Art Curriculum Designer, Cambridge, MA, 1995 – 1996.
  • MIT Visual Arts Program, Teaching Assistant, Foundations of Visual Arts Class, Krystof Wodiczko, Cambridge, MA, 1991 – 1993.

    exhibitions and events

  • Interactivity, McLeod Residence, Seattle, WA, July-August, 2007.
  • McLeod Residence, Bullseye, Moving Target, Seattle, WA, March, 2007.
  • Ontario Science Center, Commissioned works, Giant POM, Galaxy, Body Electric, Ontario, Canada, June 27, 2006.
  • Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Pattern Language, Clothing as Communicator, Curated by Judith Hoos Fox, The Firefly Dress, Urbana-Champaign, IL, January 21 – April 9, 2006.
  • Gallery Artists Studio Projects, The Thread Counts Project, Curated by Luann Stovell, Pom Pom Dimmer, Brookline, MA, January 27 – March 26, 2006.
  • San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the 21st Century, Curated by Susan Taber Avila, Almost Square, Tufted Dimmers, San Francisco, CA, February 17 – May 29, 2006.
  • Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Extreme Textiles, Designing for High Performance, Curated by Mathilda McQuaid, Commissioned works, Fuzzy Light Wall, Leaping Lines Fabric, Columbus, OH, April, 2006.
  • Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Nostalgia and Technology, Curated by Marc Olivier, Dynamic Double Weave, Fuzzy Light Box, Musical Instruments, Musical Jacket, Firefly Necklace, Provo, UT, December 1, 2005-May 13, 2006.
  • Tufts University Gallery, Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Firefly Dress, Medford, MA, 2005 – 2008.
  • IFIA Technical Textile Show, Curated by Marie Mahoney, Exhibition, Dynamic Double Weave, Texas, October 26 – 29, 2005.
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Extreme Textiles, Designing for High Performance, Curated by Mathilda McQuaid, Commissioned works, Fuzzy Light Wall, Leaping Lines, New York, NY, April 8 – October 30, 2005.
  • Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Innovations in Fiber, Dynamic Double Weave, Musical Jacket, Musical Instruments, Fuzzy Dimmers, Firefly Dress, Ann Arbor, MI, March 28 – May 27, 2005.
  • WIRED NEXTFEST, Dynamic Double Weave, Pom Pom Dimmers, San Francisco, CA May 14 – 16, 2004.
  • FEED Festival, Selfridges, Dynamic Double Weave, Pom Pom Dimmer, Birmingham, England, April 19 – 28, 2004.
  • CIBERARTS Bilbao Festival, Competition, Dynamic Double Weave, Bilbao, Spain, April 28 – 30, 2004.
  • The Space Between, Curated by Moira Doropoulos, Anne Farren, Andrew Hutchison & Keiko Kawashima, Dynamic Double Weave, Perth, Australia, April – June, 2004.
  • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, The National Design Triennial, An Element in Jennifer Siegal’s Installation, Hydra (Color Change Textile), New York, NY, April – January, 2004.
  • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, The National Design Triennial, Embroidered Musical Instruments, New York, NY, April – January, 2004.
  • E-CULTURE Fair 2, Electric Plaid, The Musical Jacket, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 23 – 24, 2003.
  • Magna Science Adventure Centre, WEAR ME, Electronic Fashions, The E-ink Fashion Module, Rotherham. UK, April, 2003.
  • Ars Electronica Center, Get in Touch, The Triangles, Linz, Austria, September 2001 – August 2002.
  • The Museum of Science, Embroidered Musical Instruments, The Musical Jacket, Boston, MA, Spring 2001.
  • NTT InterCommunication Center, Tangible Bits Exhibition, The Triangles, Tokyo, Japan, June 23 – July 9, 2000.
  • Science Museum, Long Term Loan, The Musical Jacket, London, United Kingdom, 1999.
  • The National Textile Museum, The Musical Jacket, The Firefly Dress, The Electronic Tablecloth, Washington DC, June, 1999.
  • The DeCordova Museum, Women and Ritual, Curated by George Fifield, Skin Flicks, Lincoln, MA, 1998.
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Soft Machine: Design in the Cyborg Age, The Musical Jacket, Fabric Keypad, Drawings, November 28, 1998.
  • SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Firefly Electronic Dress, Firefly Necklace, Musical Jacket, Drawings, Los Angeles, CA, July 1998.
  • Ars Electronica, Triangles: The Digital Veil, Linz, Austria, September, 1997.
    public

    speaking

  • Smart Fabrics 2006, Invited Speaker, The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles, Miami Beach, FL, March 6, 2006.
  • Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Invited Speaker, The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles, Columbus, OH, May 11, 2006.
  • Woodbury University Lecture Series, Invited Speaker, The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles, Burbank, CA, October 4, 2005.
  • IFIA Technical Textile Trade Show, Invited Speaker, Texas, October 26, 2005.
  • SIGGRAPH 2005, Extreme Fashion, Panel Chair, Los Angeles, CA, August 2, 2005.
  • Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Symposium: The Space Between Science, Technology and Design, Invited Speaker, New York, NY, May 12, 2005.
  • Intel Research Laboratories, Invited Speaker, The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles, Seattle, WA, Winter, 2005.
  • Microsoft Corporation, Invited Speaker, The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles, Bellevue, WA, Winter, 2005.
  • University of Washington, Textiles Department, Invited Speaker, The Art and Technology of Electronic Textiles, Seattle WA, Winter, 2005
  • Harvard Design School, Sheila Kennedy, Design Studio for OLED’s, Invited Critic, Cambridge, MA, Winter, 2003.
  • Rhode Island School of Design, Invited Speaker, Interactive Textiles Lecture, Providence, RI, Fall, 2003.
  • Bruce Mau’s Massive Change Seminar, Invited Speaker, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2003.
  • Harvard Design School, Toshiko Mori’s Weaving Material and Habitation Seminar, Invited Speaker and Critic, with Issey Miyake, Dai Fujiwara, John Maeda, Paola Antonelli, and Sanford Kwinter, Cambridge, MA, Spring, 2003.
  • Materials Research Society, MRS Symposium D: Electronics on Unconventional Substrates-Electrotextiles and Giant-Area Flexible Circuits, Invited Speaker, Boston, MA, Fall, 2002.
  • Sensor Expo, Wearable Computing, Invited Panelist, Boston, MA, Fall, 2002.
  • Tech-u-Wear, Fashion, Ergonomics and Technology, Invited Speaker, New York, NY, 2001.
  • Kansas City University, Hallmark Lecture Series on Design, Invited Speaker, Sculpted Computational Objects, Kansas City, MI, 2001.
  • CHI 2000, Paper Presentation, The Embroidered Musical Ball, The Netherlands, 2000.
  • College Art Association Conference 2000, Textiles in the Future, Invited Speaker, Changing the Shape of the Computer, New York, NY, February, 2000.
  • The National Textile Museum, Workshop and Lecture, Electronic Textiles, Washington DC, June, 1999.
  • FIT, Design in the Electronic Age, Invited Speaker, New York, NY, May, 1999.
  • Computer Human Interface Conference, CHI 1998, Paper Presentation, Triangles: Tangible Interface for Manipulation and Exploration of Digital Information Topography, Los Angeles, 1998.
  • Computer Human Interface Conference, CHI 1998, Paper Presentation, Fabric Computing Interfaces, Los Angeles, CA, 1998.
  • Design of Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2000, Paper Presentation, Interface to Architecture: Integrating Technology into the Environment of the Brain Opera, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1997.
  • Interval Corporation, Invited Speaker, Design in the Brain Opera, Palo Alto, CA, 1997.
    patents
  • Electronic Textile Touch Light Controller, Maggie Orth, US Patent 7,054,133, 2004.
  • Electrically Active Textiles and Articles Made Therefrom, Maggie Orth, Rehmi Post, Emily Cooper, Joshua Smith, US Patent 6,210,771, 2001.
  • Digital Communication, Programmable Functioning and Data Transfer Using Modular Linked Processor Elements, Maggie Orth, Matt Gorbet, US Patent US5941714, 1999.
  • Apparatus for Controlling Continuous Behavior Trough Arm and Hand Gestures, Teresa Marrin, Joseph Paradiso, Tod Machover, Christopher Verplaetse, Maggie Orth, US Patent US5941714, 1999.

    More Information on Maggie Orth

    Maggie Orth’s Statement

    Available Work