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html patchwork of 216 patches, each stitched with their RGB color code by numerous collaboratorsArtists: Access Space, Suzanne Brook Martin, Ele Carpenter, Iain Clark, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Emma Ferguson, Flare Productions, Paul Grimmer, Richard Hamilton, Suzanne Hardy, HUMlab Workers, James Hutchinson, Charlene Lam, Kristina Lindström & Åsa Stahl, Sampler Collective, Sophie McDonald & Davide Della Casa, Travis J. Meinolf, Kate Pemberton, Trevor Pitt, Michele Pred, Clare Ruddock, Hamilton, Southern & St Amand, Becky Stern, Haishu Zhang.
From the MOCFA website:The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery, thread, and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution.
Open Source Embroidery includes workshops and exhibitions that investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment with interdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies.
An email from Sera Waters in Australia really caught my attention. She has an entire series of cuts of meat meticulously stitched in blackwork style stitches. Blackwork (traditionally worked all in black thread on an even-weave fabric) is an extremely complex pattern, somewhat like honeycomb, used to create the illusion of shading and various gradations. That's an over-simplification of it, so check this out for a better idea of what I'm trying to say.
Sera Water's "Butchering Series" Link
