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States of Violence
No full textA collective objection by artists and agitators against government oppression featuring:
Ai Weiwei
Andrei Molodkin
Cassils
David Birkin
Declassified UK
Democracia
Dread Scott
Edmund Scott
Forensic Architecture
Institute for Dissent and Datalove
Kendell Geers
Kennardphillips
Peter Kennard
Regina Jose Galindo
Santiago Sierra
Vivienne Foundatio
Clothing 2050: garment scenarios to drive circular material systems
Get PDFThis chapter looks ahead - using a framework of circular materials - through the eyes of consumers, at a range of garments and how they might be created, purchased, used, recirculated, recreated and regenerated. Designers working with creative futures thinking can contribute to ideas that lead to scalable ventures if their thinking is underpinned by systemic material knowledge and they make decisions in collaboration with users and other experts
BioTEN BURRR: Exploring current use, reuse, repair and recycling practices for bio-based clothing towards guidelines for circular fashion designers
Get PDFThe HEREWEAR project is building a holistic, systems approach towards the creation of an EU market for locally produced textiles and clothing made from bio-based resources. New material solutions have been building on the latest bio-based polyesters and cellulose developments, exploring agricultural waste or bi-product (mainly wheat straw, plentiful in northern Europe) for making cellulosic textile fibres. Working in tandem with technical material research actions, design and manufacturing is being explored via the creation of garment prototypes for streetwear and corporate clothing. The use phase and end-of-life processing management – use, re-use, repair and recycle – is also being explored, to understand how new design approaches and business models might support this. This paper uses the BIO TEN framework currently being developed (Earley and Forst, Forthcoming), to support the translation of lived experiences of working with bio-based materials into recommendations for the design and production of bio-based clothing which considers extended use phases. The BIO TEN gives structure to information, inspirational case studies and specific actions offered to the industry stakeholders. In particular, the framework supports an enhanced definition of remanufacturing as a lifecycle extension strategy, in contrast to its conventional positioning in the field of recycling. The methods for this study included a literature review covering existing guidelines, a practice review of the work of Mai bine, a small social enterprise in Iasi, Romania, interviews with early adopters (Romanian designers experienced in working with bio-based materials), and BURRR workshops with these designers, as well as students in London (BURRR is short for Bio / Use / Reuse / Repair / Recycle)
Fictioning | Visual: Dreams of Safety
No full textPresentation of 'Dreams of Safety' project in context of fiction, the visual and uncertainty
Locating the Madras Kerchief in Global Textile Trade: Convergences between Connecting Threads and the Dutch Textile Trade Project
Get PDFThis essay presents collaborative research related to the National Endowment for the Humanities-Arts and Humanities Research Council grant-funded project Connecting Threads, a website that brings together academics and curators across the United Kingdom and the United States who seek to contribute to wider decolonization work in the humanities and engage communities whose contributions to global cultures of textiles and fashion have historically been ignored. The Connecting Threads research team uses the Dutch Textile Trade Project’s data and web applications to deepen understanding of the Madras kerchief, a large checked cotton square cloth that circulated in Afro-diasporic communities in the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Unfold
Get PDFA two-section origami fold publication co-designed by the co-authors as an expression of our work. The octagonal envelope container reveals the main 8 themes of our practice: change, play, reflection, learning, knowledge, qualities, making, and paper. The Miura Fold insert presents through the unfolding process the four steps of our approach: launch (aim and design), fold (frame and realise), mark (reflect and note), and act (share and perform).
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Screen: Reflections on The Green Knight, organic power and the feminine in fantasy settings.
Get PDFThis article explores the on screen adaptations of the medieval poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' with a particular emphasis on the 2021 film The Green Knight by director David Lowery
Steering latent audio models through interactive machine learning
Get PDFIn this paper, we present a proof-of-concept mechanism for steering latent audio models through interactive machine learning. Our approach involves mapping the human-performance space to the high-dimensional, computer-generated latent space of a neural audio model by utilizing a regressive model learned from a set of demonstrative actions. By implementing this method in ideation, exploration, and sound and music performance we have observed its efficiency, flexibility, and immediacy of control over generative audio processes
Interacting with neural audio synthesis models through interactive machine learning
Get PDFRecent advances in neural audio synthesis have made it possible to generate audio signals in real time, enabling the use of applications in musical performance. However, exploring and playing with their high-dimensional spaces remains challenging, as the axes do not necessarily correlate to clear musical labels and may vary from model to model. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept mechanism for steering latent audio models through interactive machine learning. Our approach involves mapping the human-performance space to the high-dimensional, computer- generated latent space of a neural audio model by utilizing a regressive model learned from a set of demonstrative actions. By implementing this method in ideation, exploration, and sound and music performance we have observed its efficiency, flexibility, and immediacy of control over generative audio processes
Provisional Inclusion: Can collections research projects ever be genuinely ethical and equitable?
No full textIn this presentation Anjalie Dalal-Clayton and Ananda Rutherford will reflect critically on their involvement in the Towards a National Collection projects Provisional Semantics (2020-2022) and Transforming Collections (2022-2024). They consider: what do we mean when we talk about ‘inclusive practices’ in museums and public collections? Could our ‘inclusive’ best practice in fact be perpetuating long-standing exclusions, given the structural racism and colonial logics inherent in the broader museum project and its conventions, histories, and infrastructure? And is genuine, long-term and embedded ‘inclusion’ effectively precluded by collections-based research projects within the museum as institution