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...
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:...
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....
TidalCycles (or just ‘Tidal’ for short) is free/open source software for making patterns, mainly musical ones. I made it while a research student, and have been working on it for many years since, with the help...
Here’s some work-in-progress thoughts on modelling tablet weaving. Although our project is primarily concerned with the ups and downs of weaving, we are also interested in the twists of tablet weaving. Woven and tablet woven fabrics...
We are again happy to be featuring the PENELOPE project as part of AlgoMech festival, including the Symposium on Dancing and Braiding in collaboration with Victoria Mitchell. Details on the symposium are below (more details will...
During an annual time for reflection, here are some photographs from Bolivian e-textile artist Sandra de Berduccy’s visit to our Penelopean laboratory during October 2018.
Last week, I had the good fortune to experience the ancient art of Kumihimo, while traveling to Japan as part of a cultural exchange with the live coding community there. This was as a guest of...
We are very happy to work with Christian Faubel in our Penelopean laboratory for the next two days, making robots to weave and braid. While he is here with us, we decided to also create a performance...
During our recent project residency at Textiles Zentrum Haslach, we had the opportunity to work at the TC-1 looms there. As an experiment I used my TidalCycles software, which is normally used to create music, to...
AlgoMech is the festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement, taking place 8-12th November in Sheffield UK, with myself (Alex McLean) as lead organiser on behalf of the PENELOPE project, collaborating with a range of organisations including Museums...
Our PENELOPE project looks to integrate ancient weaving into the history of technology. One part of this work is to create new technology, such as the Pattern Matrix, incorporating designs for new interfaces based on ancient...
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