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[1] and associated publications[2] and patents are among the early work in this field. She was named a 2007 United States Artists Target Fellow.[3] The United States Artists foundation describes her as "A pioneer of electronic textiles, interactive fashions, wearable computing, and interface design".[4] She founded Web site: International Fashion Machines ., which created e-textile products.
The team of Gorbett+Banerjee and Maggie Orth were commissioned to create Web site: Chronos and Kairos . Web site: (movie). . an interactive robotic sculpture, for the Mineta San Jose International airport.[5]
Web site: Fuzzy Apparatus . her large electronic pom-pom piece, was commissioned for the 2013 Web site: Patent Pending show . organized by the Zero1 Art and Technology Network.[6] and is currently on display in the Home ECOnomics show at the Web site: Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art . .