Stitching Worlds: Exploring Textiles and Electronics

In  The Fabric of Interface , Stephen Monteiro argues that our everyday digital practice has taken on traits common to textile and needlecraft culture. Our smart phones and tablets use some of the same skills—manual dexterity, pattern making, and linking—required by the handloom, the needlepoint hoop, and the lap-sized quilting frame. Monteiro

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modern hand embroidery - touchable drawings; think of it as art, not craft; projects: small scale to represent what you experience each day; cartoon paper as the transferable medium; make own sketches (live or based on photos), transfer and stitch to explore what styles resonate; use imags created by others and pull out the details which speak to y

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[on Wilczek's current project]: weaving together threads from across the frontiers of knowledge, optimistically pushing ever deeper, never satisfied with an incomplete understanding of the universe and all the potential it holds for us. And having a great time doing it.