Wearable Devices for Therapeutic Delivery

7 April 2008

Interstitial NS is working with Nanotechnology Victoria Artist in Residence, Leah Heiss, to develop jewellery and clothing that may have therapeutic applications.

Leah Heiss is a lecturer in Interior Design at RMIT University in Melbourne. Her artistic practice and research focus on enabling garments and artefacts through the agency of technology, with a focus on social cohesion, health and emotional connectivity. Leah has presented and published her work in books, journals and conferences locally and internationally and exhibits her work regularly. Her residency at NanoVic, delivered with Arts Victoria and the Australian Network for Art and Technology, is one of three Victorian based collaborative partnerships. Leah will be working primarly around the Interstitial NS NanoMAP technology to develop wearable devices for the delivery of therapeutics such as insulin.