Neue Gastprofessorin bei Interface Cultures

Dr. Sabine Seymour ist mit Wintersemester 2019 Gastprofessorin der Abteilung Interface Cultures.

Dr. Sabine Seymour is an entrepreneur, researcher, and athlete. As a technologist, Sabine conceives products at the intersection of sensors, data, and the body. As an economist, she develops inventive asset ownership models with distributed technologies. Her recent venture SUPA® is tokenizing the body™ by capturing biometric data from GenZ and provides the anonymized and contextualized data to stakeholders in healthcare. SUPA pays GenZ for their data with tokens that can be exchanged for cash, donated, or re-invest for a fraction ownership of SUPA. MOONDIAL is the nexus between silicon and style™. It is a think tank for clients like Intel, Siemens, GE, Disney.
Sabine was the inaugural professor and director of the Fashionable Technology Lab at Parsons School of Design in New York, led the research project BODYMETAPHOR with co-researcher Miriam Steele at the New School of Social Research, conceived Computational Cellulose at Aalto University, and was the Chair of the Rockefeller Foundation funded Computational Fashion Research Initiative at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center. She authored three books: Fashionable Technology, Functional Aesthetics, and Computational Fashion.
She serves as a board member, startup mentor, and received numerous grants and awards. She was a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow and received the Michael Kalil Fellowship for Smart Design. She is an invited domain expert for Disney, Autodesk, NASA, Lufthansa and public speaker at TEDx, SXSW, Ars Electronica. She was called inventor of the future by Cool Hunting and has been featured in Wired, Vogue, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and appeared on PBS, NBC, and ORF. She was featured as an exemplary for her life's work at the Museum of Applied Arts 150 years anniversary exhibition in Vienna.
Sabine holds a PhD and joint-MSc/MBA in Economics and Social Sciences from University of Economics in Vienna and Columbia Business School, and a Master in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. She is an avid snowboarder, surfer, golfer - and sneakerhead, and built a helmet as game controller in 1996.