The coded textile Project
The Coded Textile Project used computation to explore materials and meaning in textile embellishment. In the context of the project, “coded” meant designing a system of signs, organized by rules, procedures and relationships, using either analog or digital tools. Machine thinking generated new possibilities for print, embroidery and woven design. The project also took the approach that textile embellishment is itself a “code”- storing information, abstracting meaning, formulating new symbols or communication systems. The relationship of embellishment to location was central to this investigation of “embellishment semiotics”. Our digital sketches and textile outputs explored how technology impacts the interaction of surface design and environment.
Researcher: Anette Millington
Research Assistant and Creative Coder: Anna Garbier
The red garden animated wall Paper
The Red Garden is an animated wallpaper which combines fragments into the analogy of a garden. The piece begins as a regular pattern design that is then decomposed- by cutting a repeating pattern intuitively to make a collection of irregular fragments. The new fragments become characters for the animated wallpaper. A carefully devised a series of rules based in symmetry repeats and the proximity of fragments are applied to build aggregates that reference trees, flowers and birds. The work demonstrates how bilateral symmetry mimics life and the functions of stacking, scale change and location result in analogies of gardens and growth.
