For The Sake Of Beauty Becoming Ornament And Other Guilty Pleasures BIOGRAPHY.pdf

For The Sake Of Beauty Becoming Ornament And Other Guilty Pleasures By Kirsten Hudson BIOGRAPHY Kirstens artistic slant has seen her exhibited in group exhibitions at such well known West Australian galleries as The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Breadbox Gallery, Gallery Goddard de Fiddes, Fremantle Art Centre, The Moores Building and Craftwest and is currently completing her PhD in Fine Art at Curtin University of Technology. From a fashionable perspective, Kirsten is a founding partner of Tangent Fashion Management (), has worked as project co- coordinator at DESIGNedge, the Western Australian Fashion Incubator, been the Artistic and Creative Director of little girl INTERNATIONAL, organising multi- disciplinary art and fashion events for 500+ people, as well as an ongoing fashion illustrator for West Australian label Ashe. Kirsten has also been lecturing in fashion, design and contemporary art at Curtin University of Technology for the last six years. ABSTRACT While fashion’s relationship with technology is old, especially in the area of textiles, contemporary techniques associated with expensive medical procedures for example are adapted as today’s fashion/identity applications and accessories. Increasingly becoming the domain of the chemist, physicist, engineer and architect, fashion’s engagement with digital, bio and nano technologies indicates the desire towards attributes of ‘variability’ and ‘rapid seasonal change’ – once prescribed to crafted apparel - to also be applied to the human body. At the cutting edge intersection of art, science and technology, the body itself has increasingly become a site for fashion driven change. By using a project called DESIGNER SKINS - the ultimate fashion statement, currently in early development at SymbioticA (a research laboratory dedicated to the collaborative research nexus between art science), this paper examines the complexities surrounding scientific in