Pattern insights
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...
PENELOPE A Study of Weaving as Technical Mode of Existence
The Twists and Turns of Tablet Weaving
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...
‘Weave, sweet phorminx’: the sound of imagery and the imagery of sound in Pindar
The notions of ancient soundscape and auditory culture have met in recent years with growing scholarly interest: classicists have fruitfully engaged with the (reconstructed or evoked) sonic spectrum of particular environments, religious practices, and poetic texts...
Woven robot swarm weaves at Algomech (with a little help from their friends)
A few pictures and videos from last weekend’s debut of the Penelopean weaving robots at the Algomech festival in Sheffield. After a frantic couple of weeks in mass production, a swarm of 8 robots and a...
AlgoMech Symposium on Dancing and Braiding
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...
HOMO TEXTOR Conference
This conference will bring together philosophers, artists, technologists, classicists, textile experts, anthropologists, and historians of technology to discuss weaving as a technical mode of existence. The two day conference will take place at the Kerschensteiner Kolleg...
Woven cosmos and patterned number
Ancient textile technology and the emergence of Greek philosophy (Part 1) One of the research questions grounding the PENELOPE project has to do with the nature and the extent of ancient textile technology’s contribution to the...
PENELOPE sucht studentische Hilfskraft
Studentische Hilfskraft für internationales, interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt am Deutschen Museum gesucht Einrichtung: Forschungsinstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Deutsches Museum, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München Einstellung zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt und bis Frühjahr 2020 (verlängerbar) Stundenzahl: 6 Stunden pro Woche...
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.
Kumihimo Braiding in Tokyo with Makiko Tada
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...
Pattern Matrix: the (almost) textile version
The pattern matrix is our instrument to demonstrate basic interferences of weaving structure and thread color order to the public. It is easy to understand and can be tried out by visitors without much knowledge of...
A Penelopean Performance
On the occasion of the “AWAY | TAKIY ‒ Raise the Curtain for Weaving” exhibition, we brought together into an experimental performance some of the elements, technologies and languages that the PENELOPE project is exploring and...
