{{short description|American artist and technologist (born 1964)}} '''Maggie Orth''' (born 1964, Columbus, OH) is an American artist and technologist who helped create the field of E-textiles. Her 2001 MIT Media Lab PhD thesis, Sculpted computational objects with smart and active computing materials<ref>{{cite thesis | title= Sculpted computational objects with smart and active computing materials (MIT PhD thesis)| year= 2001| publisher= Massachusetts Institute of Technology| hdl= 1721.1/8674| type= Thesis}}</ref> and associated publications<ref>[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1011448 Post, R., Orth, M., Russo, P., and Gershenfeld, N. E-broidery: design and fabrication of textile-based computing. IBM Systems Journal 39, 3-4 (2000), 840–860.]</ref> and patents <ref>{{patent|US|6210771|"Electrically active textiles and articles made therefrom."}}</ref> are among the early work in this field. She was named a 2007 United States Artists Target Fellow.<ref>{{cite web | title=Faculty, alumna win United States Artists grants (MIT News Office) | url=http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2007/usa-awards-1120}}</ref> The United States Artists foundation describes her as "A pioneer of electronic textiles, interactive fashions, wearable computing, and interface design".<ref>{{cite web| title=USA Fellows, Maggie Orth|url=http://www.usafellows.org/fellow/maggie_orth|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141115063608/http://www.usafellows.org/fellow/maggie_orth|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 15, 2014}}</ref> She founded {{cite web | title=International Fashion Machines | url=http://ifmachines.com}}, which created e-textile products.
The team of Gorbett+Banerjee and Maggie Orth were commissioned to create {{cite web | title=Chronos and Kairos | url=http://www.gorbetdesign.com/proj_ck.html}} {{cite web | title= (movie)| website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5wAzGRnxLE}} an interactive robotic sculpture, for the Mineta San Jose International airport.<ref> {{cite web | title =Mineta San Jose International Airport Public Art Program Audio Tour | url= http://www.flysanjose.com/fl/about.php?page=art/tour&subtitle=Public+%7C+Audio+Tour}}</ref>
{{cite web | title=Fuzzy Apparatus | url=http://www.maggieorth.com/art_FA.html}} her large electronic pom-pom piece, was commissioned for the 2013 {{cite web | title=Patent Pending show | url=http://www.zero1.org/exhibitions/patent-pending}} organized by the Zero1 Art and Technology Network.<ref>{{cite web | title=Fuzzy Apparatus, in Patent Pending Show|url =http://zero1.org/exhibitions/patent-pending/orth}}</ref> and is currently on display in the Home ECOnomics show at the {{cite web | title=Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art | url=http://www.chaffey.edu/wignall/exhibitions.shtml}}.
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==External links== * [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1124335,00.html Time Magazine article about Maggie Orth] High-Tech Goes High-Touch: Fantastic Fabricator, Anita Hamilton, Time Magazine, Oct. 30, 2005 * [http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/08/05/maggie-orths-electronic-textiles/ Adafruit blog piece] Maggie Orth's electronic textiles, Aug. 5 2013 * [http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/wear.php?is=16&file=8&tlang=0 Interview with Maggie] Fashion Sensing / Fashioning Sense: A conversation about aesthetics with International Fashion Machines' Maggie Orth, Anne Galloway, Horizon 0 magazine * [http://www.ifmachines.com International Fashion Machines] * [http://www.maggieorth.com Maggie Orth Studio]
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