Joanna Berzowska
Joanna Berzowska is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Her teaching and research center primarily around “soft computation”: electronic textiles, responsive clothing, wearable technology, reactive materials and squishy interfaces. She is the founder of XS Labs in Montreal, a research studio that develops artifacts that are extra soft and react in weird ways to our bodies and our environments. She was also the cofounder of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she developed the first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid, an addressable color-change textile.