Joanna (Joey) Maria Berzowska
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Concordia University, XS Labs, Associate Professor
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- Concordia University
- Salient Stills Inc.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Bio:
Joanna Maria Berzowska is Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. She is the founder and research director of XS Labs, where her team develops innovative methods and applications in electronic textiles and responsive garments. Her work has been shown in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Millenium Museum in Beijing, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, the Art Directors Club in New York, the Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo, and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, among others. She lectures internationally about electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and political issues.
A core component of her research involves the development of enabling methods, materials, and technologies — in the form of soft electronic circuits and composite fibers — as well as the exploration of the expressive potential of soft reactive structures. She is the Head of Electronic Textiles at OMsignal, a Montreal startup developing a line of bio-sensing clothes together with a wellness application.
Learning Category: Organizing Committee Chair:
Exhibition Category: Jury Member:
Learning Category: Jury Member:
- Talks (Sketches), SIGGRAPH 2004
- Talks (Sketches), SIGGRAPH 2009
- Talks (Sketches), SIGGRAPH 2008
- Talks (Sketches), SIGGRAPH 2005
Artwork(s):
Experience(s):
Type: [SIGGRAPHVillage]
New Initiative: ACM SIGGRAPH Design Community
[Inakage] [Kasra] [Berzowska] [Smith] [Kim]
[SIGGRAPH 2022]
Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
CyberFashion Area
Organizer(s): [Gordon] [Berzowska] [Coelho] [Kenyon] [Easterly] [Hansen] [Dorman]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Soft Computation and Physical Interaction Workshop
Organizer(s): [Berzowska] [Coelho]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
Experience Category Collaboration(s):
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Frontiers]
Frontiers Workshop: Shaping the Role of Design in the Era of AI Presenter(s): [Berzowska] [Inakage] [Smith] [Kasra] [Kim] [Underkoffler] [Henchoz] [Aish]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Karma Chameleon: jacquard-woven photonic fiber display Presenter(s): [Berzowska] [Skorobogatiy]
[SIGGRAPH 2009]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
SKORPIONS: kinetic electronic garments Presenter(s): [Berzowska] [Mainstone]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Type: [Art Papers & Presentations]
Memory Rich Garments: Body-Based Displays Presenter(s): [Berzowska] [Yarin]
[SIGGRAPH 2005]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Very Slowly Animating Textiles: Shimmering Flower Presenter(s): [Berzowska] [Banasik]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
Role(s):
- ACM SIGGRAPH Village Presenter
- Art Paper Author
- Art Papers Jury Member
- Art Papers Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Art Show Art Reviewer
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Jury Member
- Emerging Technologies Collaborator
- Frontiers Presenter
- Studio (SIGGRAPH Lab) Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Unified Jury Member