This August, Ellen and Annapurna work in Hyderabad, India, on two PENELOPE related projects: testing the warp-weighted loom with Indian handloom weavers for weaving cotton warps without starch; and producing a cover cloth with the ancient...
Two birds living together, each the friend of the other, perch upon the same tree / Of these two, one eats the fruits of the tree, but the other simply looks on without eating. Translation to...
Right now, the PENELOPE team is working in the Thinker house Schedlberg, a Landmark in the Bavarian Forest close to Arnbruck. The architect Peter Haimerl managed to preserve 100% of the historic structure and substance of...
Interested in remotely controlling our robots? Keen on listening to patterns? Curious to see how Penelope’s unweaving might have looked like? Visit our looms-in-motion.eu platform for information and participation related to our nine projects. You can...
I’ve been enjoying the idea of “research products”, as distinct from the concept of “research prototypes”. Prototypes are understood as something partially working/unfinished, as a step towards an answer to a design problem. Research products on...
Studentische Hilfskraft für internationales, interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt am Deutschen Museum gesucht Einrichtung: Forschungsinstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München Bewerbungsschluss: 12. März 2021 Einstellung: 1. Mai 2021 Befristung: 30. September 2021 (verlängerbar) Stundenzahl:...
While processor speeds and the use of computation in our society have increased enormously, it is significant that the materials of electronics construction itself (discrete components soldered on to resin printed circuit boards) has been broadly...
These are the stark images from India that fill news feeds today: The exodus of India’s migrant workers, from its mammoth cities, enduring hunger and despair to get home, in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown....
During December and January, I am studying in Munich as a part of my Ph.D. project titled “Soft Images: Textiles as Image Media”, a project which I am carrying out in the art history department at...
I’ve been thinking about the relationship between colour and weave effects, and double weave structures. It started with making the following chart, while thinking about the possibilities offered by alternating colours of weft and warp threads:...
WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GIOVANNI, ALEX, ANNAPURNA, AND ELLEN The notion of homo textor refers to three dimensions of human beings where weaving (texere in Latin) is at stake. First of all, textile production is one...
Here is a list of github repositories and associated DOI archives for referencing in publications. These contain all the source code and hardware designs made for the project so far by FoAM Kernow. Weavingcodes: Github repository...
Live coding has developed into an international community of practice over the past two decades, where artists make live use of programming languages to express and create time-based works, predominantly at the fringes of electronic music....
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