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Exhibitions Open Source Embroidery Curated by Ele Carpenter |
Introduction Exhibitions Html Patchwork Workshops Language Scarves Links to interesting things
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Open Source Embroidery: Craft + Code |
Exhibitions
Open Source Embroidery
Curated by Ele Carpenter
Introduction
Exhibitions
Html Patchwork
Workshops
Language Scarves
Links to interesting things
Http Gallery, London 16 May - 15 June, 2008
Ele Carpenter, Iain Clarke, Keith o'Faolain, Mark Gibbens, Paul Grimmer, Tricia Grindrod, Suzanne Hardy, Jake Harries, John Keenan, Trevor Pitt, Clare Ruddock, James Wallbank and Lisa Wallbank.
The exhibition at Furtherfield's Http Gallery in London presents the completed Html Patchwork, along side works made by artists and craftspeople at Access Space, and new works by Suzanne Hardy, Paul Grimmer and Iain Clarke.
We are very excited to exhibit the Knit-a-blog for the first time. Suzanne (glittrgirl) Hardy facilitated the Great International Knit-a-blog (2006-7) as a collectively knitted blog both in wool, and as a journal and online blog at: Knitted Blog Ele and Suzanne met at their local knitting group which meets at the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle every Tuesday evening.
Iain Clarke first wrote his 'PHP Embroidery' script for the Open Source Embroidery workshop at Connecting Principle: Process 2007. The work has beeen modified scince then, and now resembles a weaving pattern, with colours moving up the screen depending on the speed of your browser and internet connection. When Paul Grimmer asked Ele Carpenter to teach him how to knit network cable, they struggled for sometime before coming up with the idea of weaving. Paul built a weaving frame to create a weaving the same size as a computer monitor. In the exhibition at Http Gallery Paul Grimmer's 'Ether (swatch)' woven network cable connects Iain Clarke's 'PHP Embroidery' to the network. The cource code to the PHP Embroidery is available to take away on a print out.
The PHP Embroidery is reminscent of early net art, using the internet as a space in which to create artwork. The work uses a command to repeat refresh the page. Each time the page is refreshed the co-ordinates of the colour spaces and frequencies are replotted. To view the work directly from the server see 'PHP Embroidery', Iain Clarke
Open Source Embroidery
Access Space, Sheffield, UK Sept - Nov, 2007
Ele Carpenter, Keith o'Faolain, Mark Gibbens, Tricia Grindrod, Jake Harries, John Keenan, Trevor Pitt, Clare Ruddock, James Wallbank and Lisa Wallbank.
Open Source Embroidery is a socially engaged new media craft project initiated by Ele Carpenter exploring the similarities between Open Source software and the collaborative characteristics of needlework crafts. This exhibition presented the Html Patchwork as a work in progress, alongside creative projects by artists, computer users and craftspeople in Sheffield and beyond.
Patchwork reuses fabric to make new textiles, and is designed and pieced together by networks of quilters. Many of the designs explore mathematical sequences. Tricia Grindrod runs the Patchwork Garden Shop generously loaned her Bargello patchwork for the exhibition.
People at Access Space contributed to the Html Patchwork and created new works for the exhibition including: Keith o'Faolain's animation of the 216 hexadecimal colours used in the Html Patchwork; Lisa Wallbank's crocheted telnit 0: time for bed computer and mouse cover; John Keenan's embroidered T-shirt and baseball cap; and an Electronic Embroidery sound T-shirt by Keith o'Faolain and Jake Harries, performed at the preview.
Mark Gibbens created a hexagonal biscuit cutter from an old computer case to make biscuits for the exhibition preview.
James Wallbank's Hexart GDlib Script Error emerged by accident while he was writing the code that creates the display of 216 websafe colours for the Html Patchwiki.The Patchwiki can be found through Html Patchwork page of this site, and is documented on Ele's Blog.
The exhibition included html embroidery by Ele Carpenter stitching onto fabric and clothing in response to specific conversations or events, as described on the workshops page of this website.
Clare Ruddock, Newcastle upon Tyne, makes Calling Cards embroidering web addresses onto handkerchiefs, combining the romance of a Victorian lady dropping her handkerchief and the formal business card or email signature. See Clare's Blog.
The exhibition included the 'Soft Bench Knitting Pattern' knitted by ladies from the Glebe Farm Estate, facilitated by Trevor Pitt, Birmingham, 2005. The ladies wrote out their patterns for each part of the bench. See the designed knitting pattern Soft Bench Knitting Pattern