User:Vera/minor/Research document

What did we knit?

A essay/ Research document about machines, objects and human feelings. We found a knitting machine: the Open Knit [1],[2]. We used this machine and adapted it for our purposes. This machine is only able to knit technically simple tube patterns. However, the idea that a machine is able to copy the result of a human craft. Actually a lot of people are unaware that most knitted clothes are made bye knitting machine, who knits all your cloths. Please take a closer look at your one cloths.

In this essay I do not want to tell you about how to knit, but the charm of a knitting machine as an object and as a human made machine. In this way we can investigate and create some empathy between human kind and machines.

Preface/introduction

From graphic design to digital craft. Previously I have written in ‘my craft’ that I was afraid for computers. They didn’t do what I wanted, maybe because I was ignorant on how to operate one. When I understood better how to deal with the computer I became less afraid and now I feel comfortable with digital objects. Before this art academy I did not have WhatsApp, a mobile phone, or internet at my home. Not because I didn’t want it but I didn’t care about these intangible things. Always I was working with physical materials to make collages, lino’s or string beads. I really like to have material in my hands and have some control over it, also with materials you have fast and quick prototypes allowing for quick visual results. But in this second school year I discovered the plotter. The plotter was the first digital application for which I had some intuition. It created this blurry and glitchy appearance: just what I was looking for. It has completely changed my mind on what I could do with digital technology and increased my desire to work with it. After this experience I felt more confident to work with electronical machines.

Also I read a lot, because I like reading a lot and especially Dutch or Flamish literature. But also Thomas More`s Utopia. In this project I rediscovered myself as a reader because I found so many interesting books about human- machines and object relations. Especially: Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby and hertzian and tales by Anthony Dunne and W. Benjamin`s - the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction: My interest in books exceeded the speed with which I could read them. All in all however I found many interesting new ideas to facilitate what I wanted to do. In the end however the work is a practical application existing outside of the theory of books.

In this minor I was able to make something which I never thought I could make, namely an art object on the cutting edge of robotics, electronics and human craft. I’m happy with the results but there are still way more things to learn and I am still at the early stages of developing these robotics.

Abstract

We adopted a machine, a knitting machine. The knitting machine was left alone somewhere in the school. A machines of which a lot of people asked what is could do? Maybe because it doesn’t look like the real craft anymore. Maybe because it doesn’t looks like a knitting machine? So why do we have machines in life that don't look any more like what it supposed to be, how did we humans use it before? Objects, products, machines keep getting more distant to human design and are starting to be more about the ritual and not how it works or makes things.

For example, the knitting machine. The knitting machine is a machine that is not at all like the human craft. Before the Knitting machine we had the knitting human. We know our craft by that. We forget how big this simple thing is and how big it is on our growing industry.

So what if we tried to re-establish the link between human intuition and the machine`s working mechanism. Can we make our machines be intuitive and logical for human perception again? To dream about such an intuitively understandable machine is to use the original human craft as a starting point and adapt the industrial machine accordingly. In this way machines will be able to have a more natural place in our homes and life. People will no longer have to be an expert to understand what my knitting machine would be for.

Central Question

What is this robotic knitting machine?

Relevance of the topic

The world where we humans live in grows. It is growing when it come to humanity, technology, and economy. There has been a constant trend to make things bigger and bigger, never less. When we talk about the future it has to grow. Of course, humans grow as well so it makes sense that we want everything around us to grow too. When we work with technology or machines they can help us in this. This shows we have this belief in technology: technology will help us live prosperous lives and is able to solve many of our problems. But it doesn’t mean that the technology will save us entirely. In Design noir by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby (p. 6) [3] this utopian belief is put forth as well. They explain that technology could be able to be the solution for every problem. This belief in technology has caused generations of ever growing and swiftly changing industries. In our minds there are also things that seem to only change slowly like knitting, which has been the same for generations. Even if everything has been digitalized the fabrics in knitting, as in the manual craft and the knitting machines still use the same principles. At this time you may wonder why we talk about this granny thing buy you may not have realized that the whole world has knitted clothes. Look a bit closer to your own clothing.

Probably 70% of your closet is knitted. But do you know how knitting truly works? That we had a big immigration of the textiles industry to Asia where a lot of children works in the industry? All this to give you cheap knitted clothing. Now, all knitted clothing is produced using the same machines. Even if everything surrounding the industry has changed the act of knitting itself has not. You have the granny-style knitting with 2 needles. and 2 systems of machine knitting. What we want to do is not make a knitting machine, but show the gap between human craft and machine production.

The relevance to the topic is also to see the gap between human and machines. With the gap I mean that we give machines a place and a roll in our lives but there is distant between the will of the machine and the user of this machine. The machine have to do what he have to do and if it’s not working it is his the machines fault. Such a wrong thing to think. The machine does exactly what you want but when you tell, make, it differed the machine will behave differently on the human. The human will give it a place in in their minds. I think it is just a feeling what the human have with this machine. Where it is used for and where the machines are.

We look at the knitting part of the machine a very human thing to do. We think machines are smart, able to do everything what we want. But why? We have to make to teach and create this machines. And no, they don’t want to save our lives because there not able to do it. It is a Notopia for us. We live with the machines and the machines not with us? Why not.

Can we have some kind of emotional bond with machines? Can we sympathize with it? We adore objects for many years now, for many centuries. We live for that thing this unknowing thing. We started to worship this. like trees, the sun, or objects which humans make. They make story’s and give it natural powers and so the objects get an aura around them. This aura essentially comesfrom the human perspective of living. The aura is created by us human. We constantly change the way in which we see art, objects and machines. We can see this art, machines, objects. outside, inside, in books, on phones, on a picture, on the internet. Everywhere. And we can create differed perspective of feeling in our heads, colour, sympathy and empathy. When you want to have some empathy all you have to do is to see this aura, go to this artefact. Feel, see and create your own relation with it.

The technology is maybe the next unknowing step and we humans create our own stories using this machine. We could lose control over machines and what if the machines would start to be smarter than us? Or make decisions without our permission?

But why shouldn’t we fascinate about when the impossible is possible. What if this robotic knitting machine could be made? It is human to think that everything is working in theory of prototypes. But there is where everything start from, it could be? A fascination, a imagination, a speculation of something is a start for everything what you want to create. And we want to make a knitting machine, which acts like a human and obeys all the rules of creating safe machines. Maybe a human can build a relation with such a machine and give it some love and create more empathy. Then we could create a humane machine.

While working we also developed some empathy for the abandoned knitting machine. It felt as if he needed to show itself and what it went through. He did not have a lot of potential but his look was enough. When we used it to make a first DIY design the result was pretty crappie and not very complex. The people in school however told us it was a crazy machine. They didn’t think it looked cool. After this whole DIY knitting machine (rest of explanation is on the wiki) we wanted to create our own knitting machine.

As we go further into the future, we will have more machines, objects, things what will make our lives easier. We have machines that can recreate crafts. Only the thing is who knows about a craft as it is now after 100 years? So Suzanne and I speculated on what a knitting machine would look like if we left it to the human imagination. Using this principle, we created our own machines.

We want the machine to fit in our human life’s. we want to have an emotional bond with it because we created it and give it our love. It gave us our neutral powers which is something that gives us power to create the machine in turn and make it better and better. Just as with the DIY machine. People around us asked us: “what is this crazy machine and did you make this?” On its own it created without our knowing an aura of itself and a power, as fetishism. This fetishism a human-made object that has power over others. We look with our human perspectives to the object/machine. And in this way give power to an object. The human expressed real relations of power among the participants in ritual. This ritual is not only described in the fetishism but also by Walter Benjamin in his essay “the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction”:

“At the time, art reacted with the doctrine ofl'art pour l'art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to what might be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of 'pure' art, which not only denied any social function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter. (In poetry, Mallarme was the first to take this position.) An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, for they lead us to an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. ”[4] The relation of our machine what we make have also a lot of relations though the book of W. Benjamin. Even though the book is written in 1936 it talks about when art can be said to be art and how the aura contributes to this. Is art art when you see it in the real world, when you see it in a book? When is is written down? When are you the closed though the art and yourself.

The reason for adopting the KNIT is that we try to look from the perspective of the machine, the knitting machine`s thought the human and the the human thought the knitting machine also this in a group space. This relevance to it is the growing part of it how it will fit in a human and machine space for now and over many years. And how will the human create its own ritual between the machine as an art object and one`s own feelings. We can make a hypothetis how it will be, but when we present it at the expo we will never know how the human will react to the machine in reality.

Hypothesis

It could be that the robot knitting arm is not able to work, or maybe it is too slow and dysfunctional to work efficiently as a machine. I can tell you it is dysfunctional for sure and also not able to knit but we are still working on it, so at least is is pretending to be knitting. We hope that the human sympathizes with the machine and can recognize it as a machine that is knitting. We hope also that humans realize that this is not the way to knit mechanically. This will depend on whether they have an appropriate consciousness of the systems. Possibly they do not, as they never had any interest in knitting because there are too many distends between generation, technology. ‘To be human is to refuse to accept the given as given’ (p33. Speculative everything - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) [5]

This hypothesis is also that possibly they do recognize it is knitting. But is is also a critical reflection of humans themselves. We also have expectations of this machine. Of course we talked about our conceptual theory. When we had a knitting machine which is working as we want in our desires with machines. Also we talk about our relation to it and how we human both think differently about this machine.

My hypothesis is that during this week I created an emotional bond with this machine. I handle it with care and give it soft blankets around it otherwise I`m afraid it might break. When I’m home I take the blankets of and place it on my windowsill, so it has something to look at.

When we have the expo the machine will definitely not be as good as I hoped it would be. It has to do with machines never being truly finished and the time pressure to work until the expo is due. Every time I`m writing machine it feels as if we`re talking about a big metal object without any softness in it.

I hope at least that human can also create a band with it. I think they will look at it in the first place if it is only something what move and later they realised it is a knitting machine. I hope that the human look long enough to feel a bit of awareness because the knitting machines is behaver there very personally. I hope to see at the expo that the human will sympathize with the ‘machine’ and give it some help because it’s dysfunctionality. Will the machine allow to be helped by humans? I hope and think that the visitors will be fascinated by the fact it is moving and later on will think about what it was actually trying to do. In the end I hope they will maybe give the inanimate machine a bit of help, or just wait till it doing his own thing.

Research Approach

We started with the knitting machine as a basis because Suzanne and I are both fascinated with knitting. This fascination comes from our different backgrounds, my background as graphic designer, who also loves fashion, not fashion but the materials of fashion. Of course for knitting. My grandma and mother are very good knitters they don’t even need machines in their life to create incredible knitting pieces. My mother is also a classic painter and creates a lot of patterns with knitting. But even we look only to the end result we never look at the machine who is doing most of the work.

What we did is by creating our one machine to work with though other machines, this machines where the Brother KH-900 and the OpenKnit (the opesource DIY). The research released of our one fascinates by knitting. But we didn’t know till now there what a hidden story in it. The story of a machine as a piece of art. Every time we think what the knitting machine produce have to be the end result. But definitely not when we work on the OpenKnit, and human ask us every time the same question. What is this machine? The human by us in school bring on the idea to create something what have attention.

We work by define and design our research by human questions, talks, thoughts and books about machines/humans and objects in human’s life. By working with opinions of humans and books work very well to create thoughts of the knitting machine what we making. This talking to human’s work very well because the human have to deal with this knitting machines. And look to it what this machine will be for them.

When we are where creating the robotic arm, we took in the first place a template form internet because there where thousands of robot arms. We didn’t have any exsperciesn with making this robotic, 3D programs and 3D printing at all. Many we where a bit to enthusiastic to create this in 2,5 weeks. We took a example from the internet and try to 3D print every part of it. To print this and find out how the programming what took 1 full week. But by remaking and exploring the Open-Knit we know how to put every wire in the breadboard, and how to deal with this servo motors. The motors how create the movement of the robotics arms. When we finish the how print part, we had to make it together till a robot arm, this was one big puzzle. However when this was finish I start focus me on the programming. This took one weekend to fix and this was the easiest part we didn’t expect that. By following some examples from Arduino.com. and a protype was born. Our methothe was just doing. Leaning bye doing go’s faster than waiting and looking till you find the perfect way of creating. When we know how every programming, mechanical and wire works. We can finely start to create our one.

At the same time of exploring how to make and build robotic arms, we focus on books. We reading in this books because there where such nice parts in in about human and feelings for machines, objects. By reading this books it is easer to define the work what we making. By reading –

Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby [6] Speculative everything - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby [7] The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction - Walter Benjamin

For us are this books a key to understand what we doing and finding out our unknowing about the thoughts what we have giving words to tell and written about our knitting machien.

We have creating feelings with this knitting machines. When we started to care about this machine, we wondered if there are more things where we care for in objects and machines? And if we can make it a machine how will create empathy, we thinks yes because this humans in school also talking about feelings en empathy. What our step is by translating the human knitting machine into a machine that humans are able to intuitively understand. To carry out the Sinterklaas mission: We ask if human will draw a knitting machine, how they thinks it looks. After this little assessment we know we are in a good direction of the image of the machine. (see the wikipage for al this documentation, )

By building robot arms that are holding knitting needles and move around we don’t know how the human will react on this. In the book of Design noir they give human the object and tell them what the power is of the object. Some people give it a totally other approach. We think it is a next step give humans this knitting machine to show the how the machine will act in the world of the human.

For now, we focus on The approach of the machine itself in the expo room, how will they act whit al this human in his surrounding? The only thing that we can’t say is how the machine is feeling under all of this, or whether it he has some thoughts of it`s own. We look with a human perspective to the machine. The human will see and fill in for the machine what they feel or think. We can create the setting and the approaches but in the end the approach is determined by how the observing human puts his or hers own perspective on the machine. The human will create their opinion and relation anyway with a object or machine. This is also a reason why we have a human-made objects in life how we think it can have some power over others, like machines and their consciousness.

Key References

The book of
Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby Speculative everything - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction - Walter Benjamin [8]

Key images: Knitting excavator The Knitting Machine, - dave cole 2005
Functional Installation with Acrylic Felt and Excavator [1]


Sun Yuan and Peng Yu - Can’t Help Myself: https://www.guggenheim.org/video/sun-yuan-peng-yu-tales-of-our-time

the makes have one thing in common and that is machine in relation to human. To human fairs, thoughts, critics, ideologically, desire, fascination.

The machine of Sun Yuan and Peng Yu - Can’t Help Myself: [2]

“The machine is incapable of preforming any task that is beyond the human Experian’s. What human’s fears is the unknown, if it is known it can be call the future. “

(how does your work relate to contemporary makers? what a key analogues/works of inspiration?) 

Literature'

Hertzian Tales - Anthony Dunne - ISBN: 9780262042321  Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects - Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby - ISBN-10: 3764365668  Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practices - Matt Malpass - ISBN: 9781472575180  Shaping things- Bruce Sterling - ISBN: 9780262693264  Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750 - Adrian Forty - ISBN: 9780500274125  Objects of desire: the modern still life - Margit Rowell The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman - ISBN: 9781452654126  Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things - Don Norman - ISBN 9780465051366 0465051367 The politics of design : a (not so) global manual for visual communication - Ruben Pater - ISBN 9789063694227  Conceptual Art - Peter Osborne - ISBN 0714839302

Experiments

When we started with knitting we were experimenting with the knitting machine, we knitted text and a photo of Instagram and that worked out pretty good. We did this experiments with the brother Kh-900. To print a poster and an Instagram to fabric. We know the knitting machine was able to knit pictures but not how precisely it was. We were working to the idea of a wall carpet with the brother knitting machine. We know how to knit and how to do it so this was not the issue to work with a machine how do this work of us. The software was a bit disappointing to work with a goes a bit slow, and not is being not very ‘lekker’ designed. The issues of this machine is that it’s only possible to work with 2 different colours of threat and it is not easy to change this. After this we where a bit stuck we where looking at the internet and the liberty for good knitting books ore experimentations. But then there what this thing with the name: OpenKnit.

When we saw it for the first please it didn’t look at a knitting machine. Openknit We found the open kit a machine this is based on the open source idea. Then we started to experiment with the open knit machine, and trying to make it work so it can knit automatically.

The first part was finding some documentation of this open knit machine and looking what there was missing. After this it was starting to 3d print everything and soldering this stuff again. Finding every wire to the right port and fix the Arduino code to work. Checking of the servos morirs working and of it is moving. But when we doing this cardiopulmonary resuscitation project with the DIY machine, there was every time someone how ask us the question what is this machine?

After this we think every time what would it be if a knitting machine what something diverged start to draw (on the wiki) this out. this same week when we where discuss the knitting machine we had the same imagination though this machine some robot hands how will be knitting. But how?

We start to look up on the internet for a robot hand, so many! Incredible but, but it was just a robot arm. After some modifications we make a prototype. Fist we dwaring a lot. To see how it was looks like in our imagination. And decide to do it in 2 times one prototype and than the official. Not because we where lazy but we had 2 weeks to work it fully out. And 3D printing cost time. A lot of time. The first model was looking with heavy colour colours, it was looking as a Barbie and Action man together. Some child toy how can’t decide if it is a girl or boy. very gender neutrally. But it was working and it reacts on some pulses with the servo motors. This go’s easily because we work also with de DIY OpenKnit with the servos. Jippie ai jhee. After setting the prototype up we make a application for this knitting needle some reason it was looking like a bird or a pet for your home. The 3D printing cost so many time we had to come with a faster solution, the laser cutter and find some rest-material to laser some strait pieces out for this. Goes al lot fault and it cost one week 5 days of school to print and laser cut all this pieces for this knit machine. After prototyping the first hand there was no time to think, wait ore experiment more. Because there was one week left for making two of this knitting machines in the colours what we want.

When we decided to make a human knitting machine and were experimenting with how people see a knitting machine by using the surprise to make people draw a knitting machine. The drawings were really interesting, some people didn’t really know what to think of when you say knitting machine and some people actually draw a very similar machine to what we’re going to make.

The experiment is the human at the end of this story. A social test what the human will do. But also the knitting machine what we make. And we the makers where the experiment of the machine he is constantly testing and experimenting with us. By pretending the machines are working and it isn’t working, and so on, so on. For us was it a searching for why acting he so slow, or don’t want to move. But the biggest experiment was an hour before opening the expo. The hole knitting machine stopt. Working, reacting. Maybe we humans have a bad aura and the machines was taking it over, or he was to nervous. but we find out to do only the power on and of and it works if there was never a problem.

Insights from Experimentation

We started with the knitting machines and from experimenting with them we learned a lot about knitting and how the knitting machine works. That knowledge for the open knit machine. With a better understanding of the knitting machine it was easier for us to understand and fix the open knit machine and make our one knitting machine.

When we decide to adopt a DIY knit machine, a very shitty and neglected knit machine and try to give him his life back. So he had some issues with himself a frustration, maybe because he was Neglected. The communication between him and human was very sad and disappointed. But (we) the human had an expiation of this machine, like a child how have to grow up and try to bicycle. Why use humans this DIY anyway? We know it is a bit a utopic idea to make everything yourself and machines or objects open source. It is most of the time in concept and it work halfway and it is also most of the time user-unfriendly and not always well documented. When you know nothing about for example digital machines, programming and 3D printing at all. They documented there work but don’t explain why? so everyone was also asking what is this machine doining? And I didn’t know that a knitting machine was looking like this.

With the open knit we can make everything open source but not what we want. There is a big gab between the machine and the user. Between the programmer and the audients to use the machine. We ask Gera (master knitting at the fabric station) why she don’t use the open kit (the shitty machine) and she say: ‘’the machine is not based on how knitting is working’’ This gab between a user and familiar with knitting and a geek how to know to building a machine whit out knowing of the user. You could see a big different between the two machines by who made them, the knitting machine at the fabric station are made by people who know about knitting and you can knit everything with the machine. The shitty machine works kind of the same but is made by people who know about electronics but not about knitting and the machine can knit but the result is pretty crappy.

What this open knit machine was in the first place. This open knit machine [1] was made by a couple of humans as a DIY project. At the instructables [2] standing an explanation of how to build an open knit machine. The open knit was a success and they made a better version [3] A project that is standing on kick-starter now. Even the knitting machine has some success they didn’t put everything online like the shield on the Arduino and also the software is pretty shitty to. There is no access to create a designer or a designer perspective. Also the open source is lost. When we talked about open source I didn’t know anything about it. For me, I have always some utopic images in my head when I think about a knitting machine. This image in my head is every time some robotic hands with kitting needles in their hands that try to do a human action/moving to create a knitting piece.

Design noir: the secret life of electronica objects describes the The Notopia in the first part off the book. “ happy-ever-after” where technology is the solution of every problem. Maybe we felt lonely without al this machines. And we can’t be happy anymore. We didn’t realize how many things and objects we have in live and have some relation with it. The Notopia is for us, so maybe it will bring us farther away from the reality of the craft, like the knitting object. But maybe we find a buddy to knit with when we are lonely or dreaming to have some object in our imagination that is the reality for now.

The object what we create now is between the human and machine. It doesn’t have a conciseness but it has a goal to produce without knowing it. It is the object that has to learn by doing what a human thing is to do. Also we had a discussion is this machine right or left-handed. It gives some emotional feeling, of course you can say right-handed. But can you give me an example of a right-handed machine? that’s the point when you knit you have to choose a side. As a human being you know you left or right handed. A machine or object doesn’t even know till you say what, what is.

But also very human to fail also we don't know what the human the environment will do. The human have a participating role in this machine and also other wise the machine shows the human how to work with this craft. After working with the open knit we came with a other project based on the open knit machine.

After working for 3 weeks on this DIY machine we had our package to create our one one

This machine: what did we knit?

We know for sure we make quick decisions because 2,5 weeks before we deside to do finely a breakpoint to make ore one machine. This was a wake-up call but determined that we want to make this machines.

When we where creating 2 of this machine there was something weird on in. They work both of then differently. There act both of them differently. When we work with this machines we create some individual left and right handed machine. We try to have some influents on it. This machine take his one space. Also in the room where I live, when de cars are passing by this little machines grows to big moving objects what’s giving a voice to this machines. By accidental setting this machines in the windowsill it gives so more a vison on this little machine how could behaviour as a child growing in the big word where they have some battle to want to grow and fight in the systems. Also in the proses they create there one personality. They already create there one behaviour by the left-handed super active. And the right-handed a bit modest. I think I blow up the Arduino ore the USB-port in my laptop. But it was some meant to be to give the power thought this machines in there ‘hands’. Ore needles.

Artistic/Design Principles

< Work day and night, spend so much time it is possible with your idea and find space to create. And than take a break en looking back on what did I made.
Try different, try to make it small, try to make it big. Just try en experiment with the materials what you find in the room where you are.
Talk to other people, different people, people how don’t give a fuck about design. To give the view not only of your designer perspective.
Re-Perspective your view, what did I make, why did I make, why should I make?
My criteria for designing is to discuss about the designing for sure if you design with a partner, I even there where criteria and you follow the criteria there also lot of empty design works with these criteria.
I like to have the ‘rebellion’ in this criteria and discuss this. When we talk about designing it is already existing (for me), it is already a high standard thing. Designing is for me the point that something annoying my, something what others don’t get, make it simple and understandable though the eyes of the participator.
Read a lot, not only designer books. But just books, papers, essay’s, poetry, books for children wherever your interest are in.
Help others always by doing the other thing you can create your one thing.
When is it working? When the design becoming part of there life for a moment, being fascinate by what the design is doing and give a bit of there one humanness too it.

Artistic/Design Proposal

What I did propose is defiantly not what I designed. The design what I propose was the weaving/knitting on a status. This status could be based on Instagram and the tapestry. But also in a art movement the proses create a different view on the work what we had in the mind. “I want to explore the digital status of people compared to the status of people in the old ages by showing wall carpets” is something what I typed.


=Realised work=


What we actually make are two machines with a application on it where we put knitting needles in. The machines standing on a transparent platform with a spot in it. The shadow will grow on the wall and visible from the outside. The machines behave different. The right-handed machine is sofed, modest, quiet and sober. And the left-handed dynamic, alive, curious, pragmatic and combative. What we didn’t plant was the two characters of the machines. There where both program in the way the knitting. This special what always happening on a expo thing, create a new unplanned world. This Notopia machine is doing some act, this act is playing constantly. This Notopia machines working always even when the human leaves them alone. The machines can’t knit for sure but it is not about the knitting, but about the machine how is doing this work. Most of the time we have distance trough tis objects, we don’t see what they do. We humans don’t ask what machines feels. They have to fit in our life’s because they do what we want, what we tell, what we program. Most of this machines can’t we find in our home. It is outside far away of our lives. This machines don’t give to get what you want, but will create a band and view about your relation and the relation between machines. They will create some aura though it and it is possible to touched. It shows his fragility. Maybe the human will be showing something back ore feeling they needed to giving help.


=Final Conclusions=


When is was standing on the expo humans where fascinate by the shadow of the machines. First they lookt at the shadow on the wall and than to the little knitting machines. It’s was very cool to hear al people there voices on this machine. They talk about empathy, and fill in the sad story of the machine, there where humans they try to help the machine