tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300361762024-03-08T14:39:04.942+00:00Ele WeekendOpen Source Embroidery weekdays, evenings and weekends.Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-86051549590812994362019-12-06T16:54:00.009+00:002020-10-09T11:46:48.006+01:00Calling all stitchers, makers,
hackers, and embroiderers in Birmingham! You're invited to help stitch Portability for the Craftspace touring exhibition 'We Are Commoners' launching next year.
Introductory Talk & Workshop
Wed 11 November 2020, 6-7pm
Stitching Together Online: Wed 2 December 2020, 6-7pm
Sessions will be held on Zoom.
BSL interpretation available.
Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-17085813749028602102018-10-03T17:16:00.002+01:002018-10-03T17:17:34.958+01:00The Emboidered Digital Commons is coming to Mozfest 2018!
We'll be embroidering the term Data:
"Data: Information. Can mean anything from numbers to images, from white
noise to noise to sound. A weather report, a portrait, a shadow in
surveillance footage, a salary statement, birth and death statistics, a
headcount in a gathering of friends, private e-mail, ultra high
frequency signals, Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-91571377872839733712018-03-08T10:59:00.001+00:002018-03-08T11:24:36.695+00:00Journal at NEoN: 10-11 March 2018I can hardly believe it's three years since I posted here. I've been focusing on the Nuclear Culture project, so the Embroidered Digital Commons has been on the back burner for awhile. But during this time I've been working with Darren Banks who has created a beautiful website for the Embroidered Digital Commons including stitches by several hundred people embroidering over 4,000 words!
You willEle Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-53604530347633845552015-10-31T11:43:00.001+00:002015-10-31T11:58:51.655+00:00Textile Networks at Radical New CrossThe Embroidered Digital Commons continues! This autumn we're excited to be working with Rose Sinclair to consider how textiles shape communities before and after the internet at the Textile Networks as part of the 'Radical New Cross' festival taking place at Goldsmiths College, London.
We are inviting people to come and stitch the term 'Data' as part of the Embroidered Digital Commons, and take Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-63199569771762099512015-07-08T12:14:00.001+01:002018-03-08T11:35:14.133+00:00 Eye of the Needle: Art, Stitch, Partnerships and ProtestEle Carpenter will be taking part in a panel discussion 'Eye of the Needle: Art, Stitch, Partnerships and Protest' on Monday 13th July at the British Library along with Cornelia Parker discussing her Embroidered Magna Carta Wikipedia page, and Curator Sue Pritchard, Curator of Textiles at the V&A.
Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-16123670562234774262015-03-25T17:40:00.003+00:002018-03-08T11:36:42.802+00:00EDC 2015The Embroidered Digital Commons is in the last years of production! A surge of enthusiasm from stitchers and makers around the world is helping to complete the whole lexicon. Here's a link to Mike Cummins patch as part of the term 'Liminal' co-ordinated by the wonderful Brenda Burrell.
LIMINAL
"Interstitial, vestibular and peripheral. Far from the centre,
close to the border. A Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-88921786232546349432014-06-19T23:17:00.001+01:002014-06-19T23:17:58.633+01:00Yan Tan TetheraYan Tan Tethera is a brand new English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) commission, curated by sonic visual artist David Littler. Set to take over Cecil Sharp House
– and spilling into the local Camden area – this inspirational project
celebrates the wonderful wealth of textile songs in England.David
will bring together a season of performances, events and workshops, as
well as an Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-73044893239329730872014-02-25T19:37:00.001+00:002014-02-25T19:37:28.518+00:00Libre Graphics Gendering FLOSS
Libre Graphics Magazine have just published their Gendering F/LOSS edition which includes the Embroidered Digital Commons: Zone.
You can buy or download a copy here.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to ZONE in Manchester and beyond!Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-54386188827555425822013-09-02T13:20:00.002+01:002013-09-02T13:20:43.132+01:00The Textile Reader
The fascinating 'Textile Reader' edited by Jessica Hemmings has been published this year, and includes the essay 'Open Source Embroidery: Curatorial Facilitation of Material Networks' based in a talk I gave at the CCCB in 2010.
The book features the Html Patchwork on the front cover and includes a very detailed credit of everyone who helped to make it. Thanks everyone! The Html Patchwork Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-68049931641168122242013-06-13T22:28:00.000+01:002013-06-13T22:28:35.542+01:00Nodes on Vimeo Emboidered Digital Commons: Nodes, 2013 from Ele Carpenter on Vimeo.
Nodes is now online!
Just in time for the final conference of the Women Writers Network.
Thanks everyone!
X EleEle Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-14790748616899304132013-04-15T11:30:00.001+01:002013-04-15T11:31:32.483+01:00Html 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 19th April 2013, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition Runs: Thursday 20th April – Sunday 5th May 2013
Opening times: Thursday – Sunday, 12pm – 6pm
Symposium: Saturday 27th April 2013, 2pm – Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-27536878231669709472013-02-22T12:32:00.001+00:002013-03-11T11:17:47.427+00:00Activist KnittingThe 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.
Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-79644659855823440822012-12-31T14:02:00.003+00:002012-12-31T14:02:34.447+00:00Iteration
Iteration is now complete - Thank you to Orla in Ireland for co-ordinating the careful embroidery of this term.
Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-29348749380525975732012-11-05T14:02:00.003+00:002012-11-05T14:02:33.950+00:00Creative 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
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Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-47441994620035529842012-09-12T14:13:00.001+01:002012-09-12T14:13:05.088+01:00Completing the Embroidered Digital CommonsAfter four years of over 1,000 people stitching approx 4,500 words The Embroidered Digital Commons is nearly complete! We started with 'Yarn' in 2008, and it looks as if the whole text will be completed by the end of 2013.
Each of the 26 terms of the 'Concise Lexicon of/for The Digital Commons' are being sewn by different groups and networks around the world. We now we have the task of Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-77796292396346737272012-07-24T15:03:00.002+01:002012-07-24T15:03:21.542+01:00Access>Code>KernalThe exhibition of the completed terms Access, Code and Kernal went on display at Access Space in Sheffield on July 6th, and can be seen there until the end of the month. What surprised me was the different character of each term. The Access patches were stitched onto a curtain which either allows or prevents access to a space, by Abi Nielsen. Whilst the Access Space group pinned their patches Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-9367025003067912532012-07-02T07:15:00.001+01:002012-07-24T14:51:05.476+01:00Ubiquity in Barcelona
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The embroidery of the term 'Meme' from the Embroidered Digital Commons was initially taken up by Unruly Media then continued at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park as part of the 'Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-75349806183389573372012-03-23T16:16:00.001+00:002012-03-23T16:20:32.688+00:00A Band of Stitchers?
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So why exactly are we inviting people to use a grey and black colour scheme for the embroidery of the term meme?
Well, the Embroidered Digital Commons supports the idea that the Internet is a common resource that should be freely available and accessible. Within this common space, traditional notions of ownership and copyright are problematic. The internet is based on sharing through Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-9099264971976675312012-02-21T15:19:00.000+00:002012-03-05T20:40:37.110+00:00Embroidering 'Meme' Workshop Schedule
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Back in 2008 Furtherfield presented the 'Open Source Embroidery Craft + Code' exhibition in their old HTTP Gallery. The exhibition included the finished Html Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30036176.post-34105225571652944412011-11-12T19:44:00.001+00:002012-01-22T10:51:17.489+00:00Embroidered Digital Commons: Nodes
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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 Ele Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045386157642614518noreply@blogger.com0