[spectre] Exhibition opening /Textil{e}tronics/

Tue Feb 28 10:51:01 CET 2012

Textil{e}tronics
>From the textile to the electronic thread, from substance to fashion item
‘Let’s now delve deep into the fluff’ Massimo Banzi, Getting Started with
Arduino Following the development of a simple thread into complex new media
objects, the exhibition will touch upon recent developments in the areas of
wearable technology and electronic sculpting through lumino light objects
and the presentation of Arduino microcontrollers. Dealing with sculptural
textile (J. Štefanec) and electronic thread (A. Klančić), designed
substance and new meanings of objects (P. Dona), as well as socially
responsible textile art (M. M. Pungerčar), the exhibition presents an
overview of contemporary new media directions and questions the meaning of
the medium as such. The social and emacipatory aspects of textile arts are
clear - they invoke thoughts of industrial manufacturing, DIY subculture
and self-sustained systems, especially in relation to recent similar
developments in the fields of open source and wearable technology (Arduino,
Body Pixel Studio). The thread as a seemingly fragile, but basically
all-pervasive, almost indestructible matter, and the wire as a conductor
and an arbiter of electrons are hereby linked. Juxtaposed in a way, the
materials provide the cohesive narrative for the objects presented. The
exhibition examines this link from the microscopic amorphous shape and
suppleness of the material, all the way to the subtle robustness of the
objects. Mechanic perfection, be it the human body or a machine, is not a
prerogative here, since the delightful awkwardness of mechanics does not
comply with the projected reality. The uncertainty of the performance which
accompanies every new-media art process, is quite well suited to the
fragility of the textile thread. Weaving as a sequence of source code, and
knitting as a kind of programming, are linked in the metaphorical sense to
the alteration of the 0 and 1 of the binary code in computer interfaces,
and also to the types of stitches and markings in sewing and knitting.
Other topics that the exhibition touches upon are DIY culture, simplified
hardware hacking and tinkering. The term tinkering, in the sense of the
conversion of techno-gadgets or toys and their placement in new
surroundings with a prospect of new functions, suggests analogies between
the work process of textile workers, artists, hackers, DIY enthusiasts and
electronics engineers. The Arduino microcontroller is presented by the
movie Arduino The Documentary, and takes us to the final “wired” phase of
development. The microcontroller was invented in Italy at the end of 2005
and beginning of 2006. It was supposed to make prototyping easier for
students of interactive design and new media. It was primarily developed as
a platform based on open source code. Due to the openness of the platform
and the community it gathered online, the project developed fairly quickly.
To adapt it further to wearable technology, MIT scientist Leah Buechley
designed the Lilypad Arduino in 2007, for use in the field of e-textiles.
Founders: Massimo Banzi and David Cuartielles The exhibition, subtitled
'From the textile to the electronic thread, from substance to fashion
item', will also be a premiere of a sort, since contemporary artists Anda
Klančič and Marija Mojca Pungerčar will be presented to the Croatian
audience for the very first time. We will display works made specifically
for this occasion, and present the recent as well as upcoming tendencies in
electronic textiles and new media sculptural concepts never before shown in
Croatia. As part of the exhibition, several guerilla knitting and yarn
bombing events will take place in the public spaces of Velika Gorica.
Guerilla knitting, yarn bombing, and knit graffiti directions of knitting
and crocheting were started by American textile artist Magda Sayeg because
of her frustration with the huge amount of her unfinished knitting
projects. Guerilla knitting is inspired by graffiti culture, hip hop and
street art, as well as the desire to soften the vocabulary of the
aforementioned urban cultures. In 2005 Magda Sayeg knitted around her first
public-space object in front of her boutique, instigating the founding of
Knitta Please group. Since then she has been travelling regularly, taking
up invitations from various cultural institutions and tagging the
architecture in capitals worldwide. As for the movement of guerilla
knitting & yarn bombing, it has been spreading to the public spaces of the
world through the contributions of countless anonymous guerrilla
knitters…... Biographies: Josipa Štefanec is a member of the new generation
of contemporary Croatian textile artists, and has worked internationally.
She graduated in fashion and design at the Faculty of Textile Technology,
and sculpting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She designs costumes
for dance shows, and expresses herself through the medium of installation
and wearable fashion items. Her work has been displayed at numerous
exhibitions in Croatia and other countries. She has received awards and had
her works included in museum and gallery collections both in the country
and abroad. She works at the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb.
http://josipastefanec.com/ Contact: josipa.stefanec at gmail.com Anda Klančič
is a multiple award winning contemporary textile artist internationally
acclaimed, from Japan to the United States. She graduated both from the
Faculty of Textile Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in
Ljubljana. Starting off as a fashion designer, she now incorporates media
installations, lumino objects, jewellery and photography in her work. She
has taken part in over 130 international group and solo exhibitions of
contemporary textile art. Her works are part of many private art
collections worldwide. She lives and works in Ljubljana. http://
powerofthread.blogspot.com/p/anda-klancic.html Contact:
anda.klancic at siol.net Marija Mojca Pungercar graduated painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, and has an MA in new media in
painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has received multiple
awards and exhibited her work at many international exhibitions in the
media of textile installation, performance, new media, photography, video
and film art. Apart from working with new media for over 20 years, she is
also the editor of Artservis webpage, a costume designer for theater in
Slovenia, and the author of numerous video clips and short films. She is
the co-founder of 3via.org art organization: http://www.3via.org Contact:
www.mojca.info, www.socialdress.net,
mojca.pungercar at guest.arnes.siPatrizia Donà is a fashion designer and
independent artist working in
questioning and pushing the boundaries of fashion. After graduating in
fashion design, she has focused on redesigning ready made objects into
series of wearable items or accessories. After finishing her studies in art
history and ethnology at the Faculty of Filosophy, she moved on to study
fashion design at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. During and
shortly after her studies, she worked for Belgian designers A.F. Vandevorst
in Antwerp, and also as a stylist at their fashion shows in Paris. http://
laboratoriodona.com/ Contact: donapatrizia at hotmail.com Arduino -
Documentary Raúl Alaejos & Rodrigo Calvo Raúl Alaejos is a Spanish
documentary film director. He graduated in audiovisual communication at the
European University in Madrid, and TV systems in Boston. Awarded several
times for his short features and documentaries, he has collaborated with
many TV companies and currently runs the audiovisual department in the
Medialab-Prado Centre in Madrid. Rodrigo Calvo is a photographer,
scriptwriter, producer and film director with a degree from Oviedo
University in Spain. He has worked as an expert associate and instructor at
theLABoral Centre in Gijon, Spain, and deals in film production and
programming in Linux and Android platforms, with an emphasis on the Arduino
ADK microcontroller. Production: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación
Industrial (Art and Industrial Creation Centre)
http://arduinothedocumentary.org/ Contact:
info at arduinothedocumentary.orgBody Pixel Studio Deborah Hustić a.k.a.
body pixel graduated in comparative
literature and ethnology in Zagreb. She has gone through a systematic
education in graphic and web design, cultural industries, new media and
dance. She takes part in the international scene as maker and blogger on
wearable technologies, new media performance art, the DIY scene, open
source hardware and Arduino. When not taking apart appliances and old
computers, she is the editor of Culturenet website (English edition), head
of Media lab I'MM_ (Kultura promjene-SCZG), and does Web strategies in the
area of culture. http:// www.bodypixelstudio.com/ Contact:
deborahhustic at gmail.com Curator: Deborah Hustić Velika Gorica, ožujak,
2012. http://www.galerijagalzenica.info/ http://textiletronics.org
*When*
Fri, March 2, 20:00 – 22:00 GMT+01:00
*Where*
Galerija Galženica
*Who*
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PETRA ZLONOGA
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Ana Kovačić

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Pučko otvoreno učilište Velika Gorica
GALERIJA GALŽENICA
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www.galerijagalzenica.info
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