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Trying to Articulate My Project 

Hello Everyone!

The project begun because I feel alienated from my work when I check my emails or explore the web. My computer knows me intimately, but I can’t begin to understand its complex interconnected order of operations. Its inner workings are mystified in the name of sleek design and oversimplification for understanding’s sake. Truthfully, I am not meant to know. The technicalities that often exclude and work against me are kept secret.

The virtuality of computing, and the cyberspace often gloss over its material reality (satellites, mainframes, fans) through its depictions of clouds or green text in a black void, painted as a magical entity. I feel the need to materialise them through crafts, a medium I feel close with due to its tactility, to demystify them.

In my context report, I traced the thread between craft and computing through its history with women’s work. Women Weaving the Web. I focus on the increasingly influential algorithm, often unjust (sexist, racist) in its biased training data sets. I wish to visualise/materialise/expose an algorithm’s degree of power as it dictates more of our futures; in transportation, recruiting, finance and more..

Before the lockdown I was experimenting with the 3d-potter and when the labs shut, I weaved. First I weaved a logic if function I did on Excel, then I started playing with computer hardware as material for weaving. I’ve been getting into the cellular automaton as well as genetic algorithms, both having potentials of being very visual. (Maybe I should be looking at more algorithms??) I thought that I could hopefully make an algorithm that would create an evolving pattern which I could feed into a computerised loom (like the TC2 loom), but the design dept doesn’t have any looms. Then again, it doesn’t have to be a weaving..

So.. this is where I’m at :’/ I spent today putting off actually articulating all these thoughts and pondering how I actually wanted my object to exist in the world (hence the very late email, sorry). I think I would like it to be a physical materialisation of my relationship with computing through craft, that would connect back into the virtual and continue on????

Hopefully, this isn’t too much of a long-winded mess, thank you so so much for the help! I’m missing seeing everyone around the labs very much </3 But I am looking forward to the meeting tomorrow. (or is it today now that its 4am?)

Bestest,

Saundra

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Dithering -- potential to weave it?

via https://ditherit.com , trying to dither better w GIMP

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Playing with the materiality of computer hardware, potential to craft with e-waste..

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The Potentials of the Pixel

 Hama Beads, Hannah Ward - https://www.instagram.com/p/CKmT0hGHP5U/

Needlework - https://www.herrschners.com/topic/types+of+needlework-+what%27s+the+difference-.do

Punch Needle by CurrieGOAT (YouTube)

Latch Hook Crafts - https://www.wise-geek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-rug-hooking-supplies.htm

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Chrome Extensions Focus on UI/UX

Troika:  Newton Virus (2005) introduces the concept of gravity into the virtual world and to your laptop.

https://troika.uk.com/project/newton-virus/

Rafaël Rozendaal: Abstract Browsing is a project that consists of both software and physical objects.

http://www.abstractbrowsing.net

https://www.newrafael.com/weavings/

https://www.newrafael.com/notes-on-abstract-browsing/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/abstract-browsing/nmkbjeagaobhphiipgigbjhligebkfcg

Jake Dow-Smith (2010): Alternative websites for a distracted generation

http://experiments.dow-smith.com/scatter/

https://www.creativelivesinprogress.com/article/jake-dow-smith-torque

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Brother Knitting Machine Punchcards

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20pcs-Pre-Punch-Card-Pattern-For-Brother-Knitting-Machine-KH860-KH868-SK280/143741785103?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dc81ec5e19cf74e63b2ff66de40c130ff%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D293986996985%26itm%3D143741785103%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A9c8279c3-76a5-11eb-9c1b-86b924a02a43%7Cparentrq%3Ad44367611770a9c98cdbe89affbe20d7%7Ciid%3A1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1crCkyJMNWg

Weaving Information File (WIF)

WeaveIt - http://www.weaveit.com/MacProduct.aspx

TC2 - digital loom - https://www.digitalweaving.no/tc2-loom/

Proweave - http://www.proweave.com

FiberWorks - http://www.fiberworks-pcw.com

enorê: series of knitted textiles made with a digital jacquard machine, all roughly 100 x 100 cm.

https://www.someartwork.com/textile

Common Works: Recounted,  a collaborative artwork generating installation using Knyttan (Unmade)’s groundbreaking on - demand knitting technology. Speaking, singing or chanting is captured in the space and automatically converted into traditional Scottish-inspired knitting patterns. 

https://commonworks.co.uk/project/recounted

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https://medium.com/tebs-lab/optimizing-conways-game-of-life-12f1b7f2f54c

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Miro WIP Crit 16/02/2020

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Collages on punchcards for Women Weaving the Web

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Women Weaving the Web

Context Report Final Title and Chapter Structure

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Experimenting with 3D Extruder, thinking about access through the cyberspace and Resolution/Generation Loss

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Drawing and Editing experiments 

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2000s Net Art 

You Are Here: Art After the Internet (2014) is the first major publication to critically explore both the effects and affects that the internet has had on contemporary artistic practices.

http://art.teleportacia.org/olia/summer/

https://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org

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I have absorbed so much information that I had to map out and keep track of what I’m actually interested in. In the bubbles are topics I have investigated.

Orange bubbles — very relevant

Yellow bubbles — touch on/keeping in mind

Green bubbles — not relevant

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A collage of an essay from ‘Communities in Cyberspace’ (1998), edited by Peter Kollock and Marc A. Smith. 

Chapter 12: Cyberspace and Disadvantaged Communities by Christopher Male

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