Html Patchwork at the Geometrics Exhibition

 

The Geometrics: Volume 1

An Exhibition and Book of Contemporary British Textiles,
New Media, New Methods, New Work

Opening event: Friday 19^th April 2013, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition Runs: Thursday 20^th April – Sunday 5^th May 2013
Opening times: Thursday – Sunday, 12pm – 6pm
Symposium: Saturday 27^th April 2013, 2pm – 8pm

Artists: Suzanne Antonelii | Lisa Bloomer | Melanie Bowles | Ele Carpenter | Bridget Harvey | Tanvi Kant | Katherine May | Marie Molterer | Marie O'Connor | Emma Neuberg | Geraldine Peclard | Egle Vuleviticiute | Samantha Warren | Camille Walala | Clare Willard

The Geometrics: Volume 1 showcases a new chapter in British textiles – their meaning, possibility, diversity and reach.  In the first of a series of exhibitions, Volume 1 focuses on the interface between fine art, film and fashion.

Geometrics have always been central to populist textile design, from Inca weave and Xhosa beadwork to Sonia Delaunay knit and Jonathan Saunders print.  The Geometrics: Volume 1 works this rich legacy into present day processes, media and methods. Html patchwork, Nbedele-inspired plastics, geometric performance gifs, embroidered wood, lazercut laminates and open source design: this is contemporary British textiles, new media, new language, new meaning.

The artists are a group of emerging practitioners and design activists specializing in tactile mathematical form, pattern, structure and narrative. The majority of them trained at the Royal College of Art and Chelsea College of Art & Design and invite study in their own right.

A dynamic and inspiring public programme of events, workshops and a one-day symposium accompany the exhibition.  The Geometrics: Volume 1  book is also launched outlining the artists working processes and focus on geometrics.

Talks and presentations include an analysis of Anni Albers’ Inca inspiration by Marianna Franzosi (Tribal Art Gallery, Rome), Postmodernism at the V&A Reworked by open source textile design platform The People’s Print and Geometric Semiotics by Dr Emma Neuberg, director of the Slow Textiles Group.

The show, book, happenings and social interactions culminate in a second publication later in the year, which will bring together the different strands to form the first geometric textiles anthology of its kind.  The Geometrics: Volume 1 marks an exciting, participatory starting point for promoting discourse around timeless textile aesthetics and society’s symbolic and sartorial relationship with these.

The Slow Textiles Group, an independent platform promoting textile design and textile designers as vehicle for fertile new language, vision and cultural symbolism, supports the project.

Exhibition curated by Emma Neuberg and Daisy McMullan

Follow us on twitter @slowtextiles @The_Geometrics #thegeometricsexhibition
Facebook The Geometrics on Facebook
Website http://thegeometrics.blogspot.com
Email: hi@slowstudio.co.uk

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110-116 Kingsgate Road
London
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Activist Knitting

The Embroidered Digital Commons continues....
Currently we have photographed all the completed terms, and are making short films ready to send to all the groups, and to form the basis of a website of the whole project.
So please do keep stitching and returning your patches!

In the meantime - I have a new research project called Nuclear Culture, and you can follow this blog for my current work.

The Ele Weekend blog will still be a place to see the results of the Embroidered Digital Commons and associated exhibitions and events, but you'll notice some nuclear knitting posts popping up too.
See Wool Against Weapons.
Here's the first Knitting Against Trident poem
And you might like to join Knit for Peace.

Maybe there's an embroidered Nuclear Culture project waiting to happen...... ideas welcomed. It can take 100,000 years - as long as the plans to store nuclear waste in geological repositories...

Iteration

Iteration is now complete - Thank you to Orla in Ireland for co-ordinating the careful embroidery of this term.

Creative Commons and the Arts

The Creative Commons within the Arts, round table discussion with Ele Carpenter (Embroidered Digital Commons), and Eileen Simpson & Ben White (Open Music Archive).

9 November | 5-7pm | Free to attend RVSP
 
Women’s Art Library
Women's Art Library/Make  Special Collections Reading Room,
Goldsmiths Library,
Goldsmiths University of London
New Cross, London, SE14 6AF 
 
A roundtable discussion about the creative commons and the arts based on the projects Open Music Archive, initiated by artists Ben White & Eileen Simpson and the Embroidered Digital Commons (2007-2013).

Ele Carpenter is a curator, artist and writer, and lecturer in the MFA Curating program at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the facilitator of the 'Embroidered Digital Commons' an internationally distributed embroidery of the text 'A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons' written by the Raqs Media Collective (2003).

Eileen Simpson and Ben White work at the intersection of art, music and information networks, and seek to challenge conventional mechanisms for the authorship, ownership and distribution of culture. Their ongoing project Open Music Archive is an initiative to source, digitise and distribute out-of-copyright sound recordings and is a vehicle for collaborative projects exploring the material’s potential for reuse. Recent projects include include The Brilliant and the Dark at VBKÖ Vienna (2012) and The Women's Library London (2010), Song Division at Camden Arts Centre (2011), Struggle in Jerash at Gasworks London / Makan Amman (2010), Parallel Anthology at the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010), Free-to-air at ICA London (2008) and Cornerhouse Manchester (2007). www.openmusicarchive.org/projects


ALL MY INDEPENDENT WOMEN 2012
Interested in understanding and supporting feminist modes of production and circulation of artists’ practices that deal with issues around gender, this project marks the coming together of three important archives: the Women’s Art Library/Make, the Open Music Archive, and the AMIW Video Lounge. The programme combines a series of talks, workshops, round table discussions, and viewings hosted at Goldsmiths University of London over a three months period, and two music commissions to be premiered on the 16 November at Cafe OTO.

With: Miguel Bonneville, Genève Brossard, Ele Carpenter, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa, Hyun Jin Cho, Carla Cruz, Beatrice Dillon, Mónica Faria, Althea Greenan, Karen Gwyer, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Risk Hazekamp, Nina Hoechtl, Anna Jonsson, Alex Martinis Roe, Cristina Mateus, Susana Mendes Silva, Sameiro Oliveira Martins, Lara Perry, Rita Rainho, Flávio Rodrigues, Eileen Simpson, Evelin Stermitz, Francesco Ventrella, Lenka Vráblíková, Ben White.

Exploring the different forms of distribution, promotion, and preservation performed by these archives that were once living networks, All My Independent Women 2012 searches for new modes of accountability and circulation within the arts that are based on dialogue with a potential for re-invention.

FULL PROGRAMME 
At Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University of London

27 September – 14 December | AMIW Video Lounge | Collection of video art by feminist artists belonging to All My Independent Women’s network

28 September 5-7pm | Practicing Sexual Difference | Workshop by Alex Martinis Roe

10 October 5-7pm | Archival Materials, Practices, Politics and Poetics | Workshop by Hyun Jin Cho and Nina Hoechtl

2 November 5-7pm | Feminist Curatorial Practices | Talk by Lara Perry and Francesco Ventrella

9 November 5-7pm | The Creative Commons within the Arts | Round table discussion with Ele Carpenter (Embroider Digital Commons), and Eileen Simpson & Ben White (Open Music Archive)

5 December 5-7pm | Re-engaging Archived Art Practices | Guided exploration of the Women’s Art Library and the Women’s Revolutions Per Minute archives by Althea Greenan and Mika Hayashi Ebbesen

Women’s Art Library/Make
Goldsmiths University of London
Special Collections Reading Room – Rutherford Building (Library)
New Cross, London, SE14 6AF
www.gold.ac.uk/make
a.greenan@gold.ac.uk
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm (Wednesdays until 7pm)

 
Cafe OTO
16 November 8pm | The Brilliant and the Dark – B Side Samples for Remix | An Open Music Archive Project | Performances by Karen Gwyer, Beatrice Dillon, and the Open Music Archive
Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL
Advance tickets available via http://www.cafeoto.co.uk

More information can be found at http://amiw2012.blogspot.co.uk

All My Independent Women 2012 is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.



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