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Holes - Linings - Threads, by Alicia Felberbaum
This project
was developed as part of The Future Looms, a commission for a collaborative
public Internet project initiated by Pavilion and Iris in partnership with
Channel/ Artec, as part of the Photo 98 Public Sightings programme.
The starting point was an essay in which author Sadie Plant traces the connections
between women's work in the textile industry with the birth of the computer.
The project explores the relationship between textile production, with its
punch card operation, and the computers around the world, powered by switches.
http://www.felber.dircon.co.uk/holesliningsthreads/
Regina Frank
A performance artist who mixes internet data and textiles
A webcast of the performance I saw at DAC 99 in Atlanta, Georgia, is at
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/events/dac99/oct30/rfrank.html
HTML as Needlepoint, by Michael Dartnell
"The analogy HTML-needlepoint highlights the ubiquitous nature of representation and media."
http://www.ctheory.com/article/a077.html
Calverton
Folk Museum
http://www.welcome.to/Calverton
Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
Textile/Technology Art
To Weave a Virtual Web: textiles as metaphor by Ruth Scheuing
http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/textile/
Maya Textiles
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~textiles/enter-eng.html
Pleats Please
From Issey Miyake: advertising clothes, but quite a pleat experience!
Computer-Aided Design in Education Conference, Glasgow, April 2001
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/cade/contents.html
Shareware Project
Sharon Boggon is an artist who is interested in the connections between textiles and digital technology.
http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/textiles/sharonb/share.html
The History of Textiles and Computing
William Lee and Calverton
http://www.cthulu.demon.co.uk/old_nottingham/calverton_cottages.htm
A virtual Tour of Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum
http://www.gmtipping.easynet.co.uk/thebecket/subject_pages/history/framework/Tourintro.htm
The Weaving Machine
http://www.dqinc.com/webdev4/weavingmachine/
Google's Directory page about Ada, Countess Lovelace
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/Lovelace,_Ada/
The First Programmer was a Lady, by Howard Rheingold
Chapter in a history of computing
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/2.html
Philomela
The Voice of the Shuttle is a humanities portal. Its name comes from the myth of Philomela, who, abused and deprived of the ability to speak, wove her story into the cloth on her loom.
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/the_myth.html#web
Textiles on the Internet
The Body Image Internet Textile Collaboration
http://www.rmit.edu.au/About/hotTYPEv1/art971002.htm
Textile Related Websites
from the Textiles
and Digital Technology Conference 2000
http://www.dskd.dk/textile_conference/forskningskonference/tekstsider/urls-print.html
Craftmistress
Products for home and commercial embroiderers
Judie's Weaving Notes
In July 2001,
Leicester City Council's city museums service was awarded £160,000 by
the New Opportunities Fund to lead a major project, "Knitting Together",
which will create a web-based, virtual museum of the East Midlands textile
industry.
http://www.knittingtogether.org.uk/
Web, Warp & Weft Technology
WARP
is a program written by Adam Auton whilst studying at Bristol University to illustrate the appearance of fast moving 3D objects due to special relativity.
http://www.adamauton.com/warp/
Light Relief: Play WARP!
http://www.javaonthebrain.com/java/warp/
WEFT
Microsoft's Web Embedding Fonts Tool
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm?fname=%20&fsize=
Additions to this list are very welcome. Please send them to helen.whitehead@ntu.ac.uk
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