Laura Forlano - The
Best Sleep of My Life
ABSTRACT: This
paper takes on the tensions between the imaginaries of automation and in
networked medical devices and the realities of lived experience by analyzing
“the world’s first hybrid closed loop system,” a recently released insulin pump
and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) system. In particular, through
autoethnographic accounts of living with these devices, I develop a
multi-scalar theory of broken body thinking that collapses the world onto the
body, which suggested a different set of concerns, relations, contingencies and
processes within discussions of decay, maintenance, repair and care.
Lisa Marks - Repairing
as Making: From a Single Stitch to the Fabric of a Cultural Practice
ABSTRACT: Decay,
Maintenance, and Repair happens at a variety of scales. At a small scale we
examine how we treat the natural mistakes of handmade materials; some of which
are repaired in-process, and some of which can bring new methods to light. At a
large scale we can look at the many endangered crafts worldwide. As we
experience the decay, can we leverage our new technology to maintain and
possibly even repair the practices that have helped us build tradition and
techniques? In this talk we explore the process of repairing as an integral
part of making and how that can contribute to a final outcome at a small and
large scale.
Priya Jain - Every
Little Thing: Documenting and Repairing Historic Building Facades in the
Digital Age
https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/dmr_session2/1_frprty63