Barbara Layne is the Director of Studio subTela at the Hexagram Institute of Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. She works with a team of graduate students from Visual Arts and Engineering to develop intelligent cloth structures for the creation of artistic, performative and functional textiles. Incorporating natural materials, microcomputers, sensors and wireless transmission systems, her team produces surfaces that support real time communication and are receptive and responsive to external stimuli.
Layne is also a Professor in the Fibres Department at Concordia University. She has lectured and exhibited internationally, most recently at Electromode (2010 Vancouver Olympics), I-Machine (Germany) and 5 Days Off (Amsterdam). She co-presented the International Symposia of Electronic Arts (Belfast). Layne’s research has been supported by numerous grants including the Canada Council for the Arts, Hexagram Institute, Conseil des arts du Quebec and SSHRC.
7 October 2010
22 March 2002
