Rescension Film

Rescension 2010 from Sophie McDonald on Vimeo.

Here is the final film of 'Rescension'which was stitched at the Digital Humanities conference in London this summer.

Öppen Syjunta

You are warmly invited to the Öppen Syjunta exhibition opening and workshops at HV Galleri, Djurgårdsslätten 82, Stockholm. Three workshops will provide the opportunity for people to map their social networks, discuss the impact of the digital commons on their work and ideas, and embroider SMS. On Monday 13th 18.00 there will be a seminar with the participating artists and womens' historian Louise Waldén.

Saturday 11th September OPENING in HV Galleri 12.00–16.00.
Sunday 12th Sept: STITCHING TOGETHER, Kritsina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl.12-16.00.
Monday 13th Sept: MANY: MANY with Ele Carpenter.12-16.00.
Monday 13th Sept: SEMINAR with Louise Waldén 18.00.
Tuesday 14th Sept: EMBROIDERED DIGITAL COMMONS: GIFT, Ele Carpenter. 12-16.00.

To sign up please email elecarpenter at gmail.com or info at misplay.se
http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk
www.misplay.se

FIBER ART SWEDEN presents Points of Departure: textiles here and now - numerous events within the expanded field of textiles 11–26 September 2010. In September numerous events will take place in different venues in Stockholm. Comprising exhibitions, workshops, performances, lectures and installations in public spaces. The events aim to reflect textiles as an extended concept in the field of art. The themes include new technology and textile traditions, textiles as a relational and activist activity, and textiles’ flight from the private to the public. www.pointsofdeparture.se

Embroidered Digital Commons: SITE

SITE: Digital Embroidered Commons at Sculpture Now!?!

The term 'SITE' is being stitched by Radical Cross Stitch and Public Assembly as part of the 'Sculpture Now!?!' exhibition at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

SITE:
"Site: Location, both as in the fact of being somewhere, and also, as in the answer to the question of "where", that "somewhere" is. Hence, situation. In a system of signs, site - understood in the sense of the kernel of a situation - is not necessarily a place, although a place is always a site. A site can be a situation between and through places. A website is an address on the Internet that always implies a relation of desire between hosts and visitors. In other words, it doesn't really mean anything for a place to exist (virtually) if it is left un-visited. In this way, a site can be both located as well as liminal. Real as well as potential. A system of signs (a work) that carries the markings of a location on a map may be situated in the relation that a map has to the world. It may be situated between the map and the world. This situation may be a special characteristic of the work's portability, in that, although mobile the work always refers to the relation between sites that fall on its orbit. In this way, marking a site as an address calls for the drawing up of relations between a location and the world.
A site is a place where the address is. A site is a place where the work belongs. A situation between these two locations (where the work is and where it belongs) is a site where the work orbits. A site is also a place where people need to wear hard hats to protect them from random falling bodies, travelling in eccentric orbits."
Raqs Media Collective, 2003.

Yarn Film

Embroidered Digital Commons - YARN from Sophie McDonald on Vimeo.

Here is the final film of the Embroidered Digital Commons: Yarn. You can see the problems we had with the colour contrast of some of the patches. If you are taking part in embroidering the digital commons, please remember to take into account the problems of digital colour balance when you select your fabric and threads. Cheers.

For updated information on where each patch is being embroidered see the Embroidered Digital Commons project webpage.