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Embroidered Digital Commons: Meme

2012-01-21T20:27:00.001Z

A good idea is a live meme, it is infectious and keeps recurring. So it seems highly appropriate that the term 'Meme' should be stitched at the Being Social exhibition the new Furtherfield Gallery in London, February - April 2012. Back in 2008 Furtherfield presented the 'Open Source Embroidery Craft + Code' exhibition in their old HTTP Gallery. The exhibition included the finished Html

Embroidered Digital Commons: Nodes

2011-11-12T19:44:00.001Z

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Multiple Formats for the Embroidered Digital Commons

2011-10-22T12:33:00.001+01:00

Embroidered Digital Commons: Zone from Sophie McDonald on Vimeo. The Embroidered Digital Commons is slowly taking shape, and we are working out how to collate or show each term in an appropriate format. After they are photographed, some people are keen to stitch the patches into a quilt. Other terms might form a string of bunting or a digital slide show. The fabric patches can also be pinned

Heterogeneous: All My Independent Women

2011-10-13T12:48:00.006+01:00

The Embroidered Digital Commons term 'Heterogeneous' will be hosted by 'All My Independent Women' at the Austrian Association of Women Artists event, November 3rd - December 3rd, 2011. Information below: AMIW@VBKÖ:What Can Words Do? / Oder vielmehr, was können Wörter tun? Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs – VBKÖ Maysedergasse 2 (4 Floor), 1010 Vienna The international network of

Ada Lovelace Film Screening

2011-09-14T20:57:00.002+01:00

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Vector at the V&A

2011-09-06T15:59:00.000+01:00

On Saturday 10th September I'll be hosting an Embroidered Digital Commons workshop in the Power of Making exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. The workshop will be held around the Tinkerspace table in the middle of the exhibition, the show and the workshop are both free, and all materials are provided. Drop-in anytime between 1 - 4pm to get stitching! The text we will be embroidering is

Embroidery Ensemble

2011-04-28T12:45:00.002+01:00

Café Crema 306 New Cross Road. London SE14 6AF Nearest tube/train: New Cross or New Cross Gate Sunday 22nd May, 2-4pm Sunday 29th May, 2-4pm Sunday 5th June, 2-4pm Calling all stitchers, hackers, programmers, embroiderers, patchworkers, coffee drinkers, steampunks, artists, crafters, makers and tinkerers…. You are warmly invited to gather at Café Crema to stitch the term 'ensemble' as part of

Stitching Nodes in Belgrade

2011-04-20T13:16:00.002+01:00

Last week I was invited to the Women Writers in History Conference in Belgrade. It was a brilliant opportunity to meet women academics from across Europe who are researching womens writing, and compiling an important archive. I gave a paper about Ada Lovelace and the significance of her Notes to the understanding of the Analytical Engine; as well as discussing the contemporary problems of craft

Sad Day for Visual Art

2011-03-30T22:06:00.000+01:00

It's a very sad day for the visual arts. I've been avoiding looking at the list of cuts to arts organisations due to take place in the next 12 months but here it is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/30/arts-council-cuts-list-funding I want to write something profound - but I'm actually gobsmacked. Yorkshire and the North seem really badly hit - with a particular blow to media

Talking about Code at Dorkbot 74

2011-03-17T16:23:00.001Z

On Wednesday 23rd March I'll be presenting at Dorkbot74 - talking about the 'Embroidered Digital Commons: Code' workshops I've been running at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. I'll be joined by Lin Jones from the Museum. If you're interested - feel free to come along: Wednesday 23rd March. Dorkbot 74 will take place from 7-9pm at: The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16

Scrmalbed Code

2011-03-02T14:43:00.006Z

We had a great stitching day at the National Museum of Computing on Saturday. Marie brought along her computerized Swedish Husqvana sewing machine and quickly set to work designing a quirky typography with scrambled text: "Like eggs, code is sometimes best had scrambled." Marie designs her own fonts, and uses Bernina software.

Stitching Code at the National Museum of Computing 2011

2011-02-16T18:44:00.001Z

Patchworkers, programmers, embroiderers, editors, steampunks, hackers, crafters and coders are warmly invited to stitch the term 'Code' as part of the Embroiderd Digital Commons project. We will be meeting at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park between 1-4pm on: Saturday 26th February, 2011 Saturday March 26th, 2011 Saturday April 9th, 2011 You don't need to have any previous

Embroidered Digital Commons at Access Space

2011-02-11T16:47:00.002Z

The Embroidered Digital Commons at Access Space in Sheffield is well on its way. They've set a fantastic blog documenting the process, with great photos of the embroidery in progress and notes about the conversations taking place whilst stitching. Here's the full text they are embroidering: "Kernel: The core of a work or an idea. The central rescension, of a narrative, a code, a set of signs or

Open Web Book

2011-01-31T10:57:00.000Z

This book looks very interesting - an excellent example of integrating form and content in open publishing... I look forward to reading it. The publicity info reads: The Web was meant to be Everything. As the Internet as a whole assumes an increasingly commanding role as the technology of global commerce and communication, the World Wide Web from its very inception was designed to be a free and

Embroiderd Digital Commons: Quotidian

2010-12-05T22:04:00.001Z

The term 'Quotidian' is being stitched by Glittrgirl and Skumkitten is coordinated and documented on the glittyknittykitty.co.uk blog. They have ambitiously embarked on a strict plan to stitch and blog everyday until the text is complete: "Quotidian: Common but not commonplace. The memorable nature of the everyday. Memory walking down a street and turning a corner. Memory buzzing in a hard disk

Embroidered Digital Commons: Kernal

2010-12-01T11:32:00.000Z

The term 'Kernal' will be stitched at Access Space in Sheffield, UK on Thursday afternoons.See the poster below for details.

Embroidered Code at Bletchley Park

2010-10-21T15:56:00.007+01:00

I am really thrilled that The National Museum of Computing is hosting a series of 'Embroidered Code' workshops as part of the Embroidered Digital Commons. The museum is situated at Bletchley Park, the top secret code breaking center in the Second World War. There are two interlinked meanings of code at Bletchley: firstly encrypted information is literally encoded; secondly computer code is used

Embroidered Digital Commons: Access

2010-09-29T16:27:00.000+01:00

As part of the Embroidered Digital Commons project, the term 'Access' is being stitched at Access Space in Sheffield, UK. You can see the first embroidery of the title word 'Access' here. Open sessions will be held on Thursday lunchtimes 12.30-2pm on 30th Sept, 7th October and 14th October. Abi Nielsen is co-ordinating the stitching, and has posted info on the pickymiss blog. Don't worry if you

Activist Tendencies in Craft

2010-09-24T08:01:00.000+01:00

My 'rant' about knitted cake on Axis is raising some interesting questions on gender, pleasure, class, sugar, and different kinds of making. The rant is based on a longer article in the Arnolfini's Journal: Concept Store 3, Art, Activism and Recuperation. The book is distributed by Cornerhouse in Manchester UK - and you can buy it directly from their website.

Öppen Syjunta, Embroidered Digital Commons: Gift

2010-09-21T20:30:00.003+01:00