PENELOPE A Study of Weaving as Technical Mode of Existence
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In the frame of the PENELOPE project my aim is to explore instances of weaving imagery in archaic and classical Greek literature as revealing a distinctive mode of composition, one that reflects fundamental features of ancient...