Event overview
A discussion about knowledge making, collective practice and working with fibres in the age of the ‘new aesthetic’
Increasingly the fibre arts are being drawn into interdisciplinary conversations, including with those interested in counting, figuring and geometry – Issey Miyake’s Winter 2010 ready-to-wear collection featured designs from a collaboration with a mathematician with interests in topology and knot theory. Organisations such as the Institute For Figuring have co-ordinated large scale collaborative projects which seek to enable participation in figuring through practices such as crochet and other textile handicraft. The ‘Embroidered Digital Commons’ project explores ideas of collective work, ownership and distribution. How might knottings, weavings and patternings be understood in the context of these interdisciplinary conversations? How do they relate to crowd sourcing and their associated aesthetics of pixelation and repetition in the representation of number and its operations?
Katie King (Women’s Studies, University of Maryland & Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) will speak on her recent work that focuses on are-examination of Andean recording devices made out of strings and knots, and the relationship between knotting and ‘counting’.
Margaret Wertheim is the co-founder and director of the Institute For Figuringin Los Angeles. The IFF promotes the public understanding of the poetic andaesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics through projects such as the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. She will discuss the Crochet Coral Reef project as a synthesis of marine science, ecological consciousness raising, feminine handicraft, community art practice, and mathematics.
For an introduction to the claim that there is a so-called ‘new aesthetic’ please see WIRED – http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-thenew-aesthetic
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jun 2012 | 11:00am - 1:00pm |
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