Alinah Azadeh - The Loom Project

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IN PROGRESS: Arts Council Funding was granted to the artist to enable artistic R+D on this project until the end of this year.. To follow the work in development, please see the artist
blog : Unwrapping the Gift .

Alinah is currently working on a commissioned installation for The Crafts Council which draws on some of the ideas in this project.
Please see the Origin website for more information and the project blog:
Origin Interactive; Crafting Space
to follow its development.

OVERVIEW: 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 and Arts Council England, the pilot textile was developed in collaboration with ASF Weave (lead weaver Frederique Denniel) and Jon Bird (University of Sussex) and the installation took place at B.

The 22 metre textile, woven with silk noil, organza ribbon and golden lurex had its debut showing at The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths University and launched as part of the 'Touch, Textiles, Technology:Collaboration across Europe' Symposium in Autumn 2007, where a paper on the project was presented to 100 international delegates.

Alinah is supported in her research by The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths University, London, UK , with Professor Janis Jefferies as her creative mentor.

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