DCDCity Aire + Knitting Printer
Description
DCDCity Aire
DCDCity Aire is a presentation on a citizen sensing project.
The Development of Digital Fabrication. Case Study: knitting printer
We will present our recent work on a knitting printer. In our opinion, the digital fabrication of textiles and knitted garments has been absolutely overlooked. We have reverse engineered Brother electronic knitting machine from late 1980s and turned into a machine that is able to talk to a computer. It means uploading and downloading images as patterns that can be knitted. Interestingly, the electronic knitting machines that were very up-to-date some decades ago, from the 1990s have been forgotten. Hence, we want to raise a question concerning early fabrication methods that could be upgraded for today’s needs. Or in other words, the approached towards re-applying dead media.
Session Host
TBC
Presenters
Cesar Garcia Saez and Sara Alvarellos, Medialab-Prado user group, Spain, @dcdcity for the project, and @trecedejunio, @elsatch for our individual accounts
Varvara Guljajeva, Estonian Art Academy, Estonia
Bios
DCDCity Aire explores open technologies to measure air quality using a participatory sensing approach. We are creating a local device library at Medialab-Prado were citizens will be able to propose experiments to gather data about their environment. Our first device in the library is the Air Quality Egg, and we will talk about the open design process and library creation considerations More info: http://wwww.dcdcity.com
Varvara Guljajeva is an artist and researcher working with art and technology. Varvara has exhibited her art pieces in a number of international shows and festivals. The artist was selected for the residency at FFKD, IAMAS, EMARE (FACT, Liverpool), Crida, MU Gallery, Verbeke Foundation, Marginalia+Lab, and more. Varvara is a PhD candidate at the Estonian Art Academy. She has presented her research at several conferences, like Amber Conference, Enter5 Symposium, ISEA 2011 and more. Varvara is concerned about the new forms of art. Thus, she applies and challenges technology and traditional production methods in order to explore novel concepts in art. Varvara works together with Mar Canet as an artist-duo. Web: http://varvarag.info
Details
Location: MAKE auditorium
Date & Time: Fri 21st, 16:00-17:30
Target Group: Everyone
Topic Stream: Open Design, Hardware, Manufacturing and Making
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