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Dr Jane Harris is a Reader in Digital Textile Design and Media at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Combining material skills with broad ranging technology she has pioneered a unique field of practice based design research into computer graphic animation and real time textiles, surfacing and dress representation, using 3D CG modelling and animation tools, body scanning and optical motion capture technology.
An invisible body image in her animated works deliberately renders the garment as a cast, emphasising the beguiling qualities of fluid material in the absence and yet presence of form. The choreographed and layered movement in the pieces explores space and time, transcending category and serving to inform us of an alternative world that is digitally constructed, one that looks beyond simulation of what we know and creatively challenges our perception of what is 'real'.
Resulting installation pieces have been exhibited internationally including showcases at: Tokyo Design Centre Japan; UCITY Art Museum of Guangzhou China; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; John Curtin Gallery Perth Australia; the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Victoria & Albert Museum, Crafts Council and ICA London.
Her digital enquiry is informed by an established textile practice which received the prestigious Arts Foundation Award in 1994. A recent recipient of a three year fellowship from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, Jane has also received awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Arts Council of England, the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation and Channel 4.
A co-founder and Director of the Textiles Futures Research Centre, University of the Arts London, Jane manages a unique research and enterprise alliance that links with wide ranging industry, straddling three University of Arts London colleges, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins. It is the largest European academic textile design and innovation collective of its kind.
She has convened a number of significant conference and seminar events exploring hybrid practice and evolving technology topics including: Textile Futures Research Salons, UAL/ ICA, London; Wearable Futures: Hybrid Culture in the Design and Development of Soft Technology’, University of Wales Newport; PixelRaiders2, Sheffield Hallam University; PixelRaiders, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, commissioned by Arts Council of England. As visiting lecturer Jane has worked extensively in the UK and internationally and has served as an advisor to the Scottish Arts Council, the Arts Council of England, the Crafts Council, the EPSRC/ AHRC and the Wellcome Trust.
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