Process Talk and Short Presentation: IMMERSIVE DREAMS // INTUITIVE PROCESSES
Autumn Kietponglert presents: IMMERSIVE DREAMS // INTUITIVE PROCESSES
Thursday, September 26th | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Glimpse the intuitive processes of artist and fashion designer AUTUMNLIN as she creates immersive poetic spaces combining memory, dream, movement, and technology x textiles. Walk through with the artist as she shares her process for rebuilding the emotional quality of memory and dreams using her background in fashion performance combined with new innovations like AI sound/projection to create transformative textile-based spaces. AUTUMNLIN will explain the intuitive methods for using/learning creative technology that helped her confront memories dealing with the Death of her father using poetic retelling.
The presentation will end with a short performance of her current work demonstrating performative immersive storytelling, fashion tech, and AI sound and projection.
AUTUMNLIN is a fashion and accessories designer known for her one-of-a-kind pieces created entirely of zipper. She was one of the top 3 finalist on Bravo’s Styled to Rock; where she was hand-picked by Rihanna to be mentored by Celebrity Stylist Mel Ottenberg, Supermodel Erin Wasson and Grammy Award Winning Singer/Producer Pharrell Williams.
Winner of the RAW Artist Fashion Designer of the Year Award (2012) and Designer-in-Residence in the inaugural class of the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator (2012), she has had the honor of showing at Couture Fashion Week New York, RAW Hollywood, Philadelphia Fashion Week, and has had her one-of-a-kind zipper dress featured at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York and at the San Francisco MOMA. Published in Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Marie Claire, and Zink; she has also had her design work worn by celebrities such as; Cher, Kylie Minogue, Maggie Q, and Steve Aoki.
AUTUMNLIN has a Master’s in Fashion Design from Drexel University and a BFA in Fibers from The University of the Arts. She took her first fashion class in Florence, Italy, where she was first inspired to pursue fashion design. She learned couture corset draping in Paris, France and also attended courses at Parsons and FIT.
Doors open and event begins at 5:30 PM
To visit, please RSVP and contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
Capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP'd before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.
Attendees who have not RSVP'd will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in person before the event.