The Anti-Ergonomy of Instruments of Interaction, Freed, Adrian , Stanford HCI Seminar, 09/2010, Stanford, CA, (2010)

Entrainment Accounts of Intra-action for Intermedia and Metabody Cybernetics., Freed, Adrian , Hacking Big Data Brother: From Biometrics to Intra-action, 07/2015, Madrid, Spain, (2015)

Last week the world of wearables lost the light of one our shining stars, Valérie Lamontagne.

I invite you to celebrate her life by reading, citing and responding in your own way to one of her major life’s works: her 2017 dissertation: “Performative Wearables: Bodies, Fashion, and Technology”.

You can find it here: https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/982473/

She covers some examples used in her dissertation here: https://vimeo.com/196041125

Commentary proposed for NIME Reader

The fingerphone is my creative response to three umbridges: the waste and unsustainability of musical instrument manufacturing practices, the prevailing absence of long historical research to underwrite claims of newness in NIME community projects, and the timbral poverty of the singular, strident sawtooth wavefrom of the Stylophone – the point of departure for the fingerphone instrument design.

Music MetaData Quality: a multiyear Case Study using the Music of Skip James, Freed, Adrian , AES 121, San Francisco, CA, (2006)