Two Weavers | Two Looms
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...
Category: laboratory
PENELOPE-Laboratory and Workshop in the Thinking Space Schedlberg
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...
Looms in Motion: A one-week PENELOPE event
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...
About my research stay in Munich (A blog post from a visiting Ph.D. student)
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...
A report from HOMO TEXTOR
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...
Penelope software and hardware archives from FoAM Kernow
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...
Photos from Sandra de Berduccy’s residency
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.
AWAY | TAKIY — Raise the Curtain for Weaving
In September 2018 the Bolivian weaver and media artist Sandra de Berduccy will visit the PENELOPE Team in munich. She will work in the PENELOPE laboratory and produce an interactive textile installation while the Project team...
AWAY | TAKIY — Vorhang auf für die Weberei
Im September 2018 hat das PENELOPE Team die bolivianische Weberin und Medienkünstlerin Sandra de Berduccy zu Gast. Sie wird im Projektlabor an einer interaktiven Installation arbeiten während das Projektteam unter der Leitung von Ellen Harlizius-Klück die...
Performance with Christian Faubel
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...
Further attempts at untangling tablet weave
One of the great unknowns following the first weavecoding project was the nature of tablet weave. Other than a few primitive attempts that didn’t work in all cases and lead us to further questions, modelling tablet...
Pattern Matrix at Algomech (part 1)
I’m writing this on the train with a slightly sleep deprived brain fizzing and popping from thoughts, ideas and conversations from this year’s Algomech festival in Sheffield. The Penelope project took a significant role in the...
