Alinah Azadeh - The Loom Project

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1. Arts Council Funding has been granted to the artist which will contribute to R+D for this project until August 2008.

2.Debut exhibition of textile + installation documentation.

The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths University, London UK September / October 2007.

The Loom:from text to textile’ was the first of a series of live artworks involving mass participation in the computer-mediated weaving of a textile. The 2005 pilot highlighted human relationships to loss by asking 300 participants to contribute written 'emotional data’ - dates, places, people, thoughts - to the textile pattern itself. This happened online, in an installation space and at ASF Weave.

Funded by Networked Bodies through New Work Network (please link, see above url) and Arts Council England,(please link, see above url) the pilot textile was developed in collaboration with ASF Weave (lead weaver Frederique Denniel) and Jon Bird (University of Sussex).

The 22 metre textile, woven with silk noil, organza ribbon and golden lurex was shown for the first time at The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths University and launched as part of a 'Touch, Textiles, Technology:Collaboration across Europe' Symposium, where a paper on the project was presented to 100 international delegates.

for more info see: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/constance-howard/events-news/ttt.php

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