In spring 2017 I attended my first academic conference. I presented my work Second Skin at TEI is the annual conference for Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions Arts Track program.
It was an exciting opportunity to put my work into a completely different context. I have always worked independently, but now working with technology - and the essential need for collaboration in this area - it makes sense to seek out new avenues to communicate with my peers.. and find out who they are!
Most people who attend the conference are from an institution or an academic background. Taking my work - usually presented at fashion week - into this new world was really interesting.