sTITCHING AT THE END OF THE WORLDLOCATION AND DATE: TBD
A one-day workshop to carry out a collaborative stitching programme. Inspired by the art project Kill Your Phone https://killyourphone.com/, an open workshop format. The day will involve the hands-on sewing of phone pouches using EMS fabric (a Faraday material) that shields devices from electromagnetic signals.
During the workshop, participants will engage with notions of cybersecurity, personal privacy, the future of digital technology, and the application of ‘smart textiles’. Keenly, I want to open dialogues about the implications of future fabrics, the possibilities they offer and how simple it can be to work with these materials and possible other applications in our digital world. I want to promote the application of craft-making as a methodological device for participants to engage with contemporary and pressing discourses and within academia and current affairs. I envisage this workshop as materialising the interdisciplinary collaboration between material sciences, craft and my academic specialism of anthropology. Exploring how seemingly intangible topics such as radio signals, technological/cellular eavesdropping, voice recognition and GPS tracking can be engaged with creatively through making practices. |
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