CuteCircuit is an "Interaction Design and Wearable Technology company, founded in 2004 by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz. CuteCircuit is specialized in the development of wearable interfaces for telecommunication, and smart textiles. What makes CuteCircuit unique? CuteCircuit is the first company that merges the wearable computing and the telecommunication technology fields to create a new market and new interfaces for personal telecommunication. We think that this is the greatest innovation after the personal computer and the world wide web."
STUDIO ORTA
Founded in 1991, Studio-Orta based in Paris operates as a research and development studio for artworks and limited editions by contemporary artists Lucy Orta and Jorge Orta and an administrative bureau for their exhibitions and commissions.
The two artists work in partnership sharing a common research directive, and independently on special projects. This trilogy offers a unique diversity to Studio-Orta team of curators, designers, architects, engineers, musicians, artisans, fabricators, production assistants and technicians.
Employing a range of techniques from sculpture, object making, couture, painting, printing, light projections and communication strategies such as performance, interventions and public events, the team investigate crucial themes of the world today: the community and the social link, dwelling and habitat, nomadism and mobility, sustainable development, ecology and recycling.
Amongst the most important contributions to these social and environmental debates are Refuge Wear and Body Architecture: portable minimum habitats bridging architecture and dress; HortaRecycling: the food chain in global and local contexts; 70 x 7: the ritual of the meal and its role in the community; Nexus Architecture: alternative methods to recreate the social link; Life Nexus: the metaphor of the heart versus the biomedical ethics of organ donation; OrtaWater: the general scarcity of this vital natural resource, the problems arising from the pollution and corporate control effecting access to clean water for All.
