Dear spectre subscribers, I thought you might enjoy the videos from the AlgoMech symposium on Dancing and Braiding. It includes perspectives on technology from the point of view of textiles.
Here is the link to the videos, more info below. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7zKSsiv2z-OUnquXJmUJ06xG6VhPAcSJ Launching the third edition of AlgoMech Festival, this was an interdisciplinary symposium bringing together perspectives from digital media, choreography & dance technology, traditional Andean and Ancient Greek textiles, e-textiles, philology, live coding and architecture. Through talks, discussion and performance, contributors to the symposium will consider their work in the context of interlacing within and between textiles, e-textiles, pattern, structure and movement, including dance. Interfaces between materials, craft technologies, digital engineering, responsive systems, embodied communications, threads, inter-weaving, intertwining, braiding and building will provide a rich vein of dialogue, experimentation and recent practice-led outcomes. Sesssion 1 - Textile as interface (Chair: Victoria Mitchell) Kate Sicchio - "Making movement pattern through language" Berit Greinke - "Crafting holes in space with textiles" Session 2 - In and Out of Weaving (Chair: Thea Pitman) Sandra de Berduccy - Deep weave: Complex structures inside a soft thinking machine Toni Buckby - Interlace project: Open source weaving in Derby Silk Mill Museum of Making Intermission - music box performance by David Littler Session 3 - Textile as interface (Chair: Becky Stewart) Victoria Mitchell - Braiding & dancing Rosamaria Kostic Cisernos - Weaving in Flamenco Session 4 - Threads and technologies on the move (Chair: Emma Cocker) Dave Griffiths - Penelopean technology - woven robots Giovanni Fanfani - Interlacing chorality - plaiting, braiding, and weaving in ancient Greek choral performances Best wishes, alex ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre