I. Brother KH910 AYAB Hacked Knitting MachineTextiles are the original digital medium. Luddites were 19th century textile workers known for bashing and burning mechanical knitting machines, spinning frames and power looms introduced during the industrial revolution, fuelled by their fear of automation, eventually becoming outdated and replaced by machine. Contemporary Luddites, are associated with the distaste on the virtuality of modern devices, and angst for The Internet of Things. Along with affordable 3D printing and the continuously blurring boundary between the actual and the digital, hacked knitting machines are a great embodiment of this overlap.
Dug out from second hand websites, semi-industrial 1980s home knitting machines, originally controlled with a punch-hole card system (like ancient room-sized computers) or, in its back then groundbreaking Mylard sheet scanning system, now resurface, repurposed and hacked in order to have direct communication between digital tools and machine. This brings a new meaning and purpose, not only as a pixel to stitch textile printer, but creating palpable intertwined examples of data previously restricted only to digital existence.
Dug out from second hand websites, semi-industrial 1980s home knitting machines, originally controlled with a punch-hole card system (like ancient room-sized computers) or, in its back then groundbreaking Mylard sheet scanning system, now resurface, repurposed and hacked in order to have direct communication between digital tools and machine. This brings a new meaning and purpose, not only as a pixel to stitch textile printer, but creating palpable intertwined examples of data previously restricted only to digital existence.
Ping.
A request.
A command.
Focus on the screen.
The text is illegible.
Remain open and attuned to the
rhythm of the line.
Noise and information are ontologically inseparable.
Neo-materialism
Pixel to stitch
Mecha poetic on meta media
Artist, Writer, Whatever.
YouTube, You touch.
Home grown copyright.
Closed doors, open source.
Knithacked kick drum.
Sine, square, toothbrush.
Count rows.
Reduce to a signal.
Multple Multiply.
A request.
A command.
Focus on the screen.
The text is illegible.
Remain open and attuned to the
rhythm of the line.
Noise and information are ontologically inseparable.
Neo-materialism
Pixel to stitch
Mecha poetic on meta media
Artist, Writer, Whatever.
YouTube, You touch.
Home grown copyright.
Closed doors, open source.
Knithacked kick drum.
Sine, square, toothbrush.
Count rows.
Reduce to a signal.
Multple Multiply.
