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First name

Kelly

Last name

Dobson

About

Kelly Dobson is an artist and engineer working in the realms of technology, medicine, art and culture.  Her projects involve the parapraxis of machine design - what machines do and mean for people other than the purposes for which they were consciously designed.  As a working artist concerned with prescriptions of technologies, she completed a PhD at MIT in the material and technical skills of engineering while maintaining her perspective as an artist and now works with that material from inside, engaging multiple fields.  DIssertation work was on making machines for collaboration that participate at subconscious or autonomic levels of experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Witte de With in Rotterdam, Mediamatic in Amsterdam, Circulo De Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Millennium Museum in Beijing, ISEA in Helsinki and Tallinn, Goldsmiths College in London, Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles, and The Kitchen, Eyebeam, Gigantic Art Space, Exit Art in New York.  Research areas include performance, non-normative machine design, health and wellness, technical textile development, voice and agency, care, wearable body extensions, nurture promoting medical devices, and alternative companion machines within the structures of new healthcare robot development.  Kelly Dobson is currently the Interim Head of the Digital + Media department at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a research affiliate at MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology. 

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http://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/