Jenny Lee formation was highly focused on the development of new traditional craft skills. After a BA with honors in Decorative Arts, Lee went on studying Textile Futures, a course that places value on re-shaping future environments through challenging perceptions, pushing innovation and hybrid design (photo above: part of "Future Surfaces: A Collection of Digital Skins").

Lee is intrigued by scientific development, technological innovations and from the contradictory nature of being human. As an artist, she is interested in determining how these particular drivers can influence changes within a future social context.

AR (Augmented Reality) Bionic Contact Lens "enables users to see the real world with superimposed data and graphics over their visual field". This is the result of a collaboration of Jenny Lee and a company who deal with 3D technologies, called Holition. The future proposed by Jenny Lee blurs the limits between real and virtual: "A consumer will visit a Couture Lab, select the Digital Skin they wish to wear, this then is uploaded onto an online platform. When a consumer comes into contact with another consumer wearing a bionic lens, they will see their chosen virtual skin."

By superimposing graphics, audio and other sense enhancements over "a live view of the world", Lee developed new ways to use and implement Augmented Reality to enable "a more tactile and tangible response to technology, bridging the gap between the immaterial and material worlds". With digital skins and face-tracking technogies, Jenny Lee aims to create "a virtual experience that would enable the public to interact and visualize the future technological impact on society and the self".

Education and qualifications

2009 – 2011 Central Saint Martins, University of London, Masters in Design for Textile Futures

2009 – 2009

Oxford Cherwell Valley College, Advanced Dressmaking and Pattern Cutting

2004 – 2007

Nottingham Trent UniversityBA (hons), Decorative Arts (1st Class honours)

2001 – 2003

Leeds College of Art and Design

GNVQ Advanced Art and Design (AA)

OCN Fashion Design P/T (level 1)

OCN Jewellery & Silversmithing Design P/T (level 1)

Upcoming exhibitions

Mar 2012, Direktorenhaus, Germany

Sep 2011 London Design Week, London (tbc)

Sept 2011, NEM Summit, Italy

Oct 2011 Ventura Berlin, Germany (tbc)

Nov 2011 Btween3D, South Bank, London

Past exhibitions

May 2011 Digital Explorations, V&A Museum, London

Apr 2011 Ventura Lambrate, Milan Design Week, Italy

Mar 2008 Talente, Munich, GermanyNov 2007 Lustre, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham

Jul 2007 Free Range, Old Truman Brewery, London

Jul 2007 New Designers, Islington Design, London

Publications

Stylesight

WSGN

Dazed Digital

Irebrination

CSM News

Philippa Wagner

Stylus

Jotta