Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell^[1]

They art of showing, not knowing.

Abstract

It Doesn’t exist, only in my head a. But something what we don’t see can’t be made? Maybe we can see it but not aware of it anymore it was existing. A discard craft in relation to technology. This craft is weaving a technology on his one. It’s counting, seeing, time consuming, storytelling, on social and curtails levels. But not like a screen where we like to read our information form. Even it says nothing we are involved with the screen. This is the reason I want to investigate the working of a screen in weaving piece, how could show and hide at the same time. A screen how shows only what you want to show. A screen how is multifunctional, can be in ever direction, and is a piece of our life’s. Like George Orwell quote, If you cant hold the past it will be fade out and only know in your existence, don’t know how it works anymore the future will. It is not about showing on the screen but showing the craft as a screen. The timeless message of the human though a screen of textiles how wants to disappear.

Intro

Subject

Subject: Weaving, (anti-)Media, technology, craftwork.

Question

Why

Examples

Richard Vijgen' http://www.wifitapestry.com/

WifiTapestry is a dynamic wall hanging that visualises the wireless activity of a space. The tapestry visualises the ever changing "landscape" of radio frequencies around us. The invisible signals from Cellphones, printers and all kinds of smart devices leave an imprint as they try to negotiate available wireless channels.

A controller listens to all traffic across 13 channels of the 2.4GHz WiFi Spectrum. Whenever data is transmitted on a channel, the controller sends a current to an array of thermal elements embedded in the tapestry, converting data into heat and activating a thermochromic yarn woven into the tapestry. Like a Shroud of Turin, streams of data transmitted through a space appear as visual traces from an invisible dimension that gradually form and dissolve.

Maggie Orth http://www.maggieorth.com/art_100EAYears.html

The title of 100 Electronic Art Years refers to the ambiguous lifetime of color-change textiles,
and all electronic art. All art fails. All electronic art fails.
The question is how, and with what result?

Anne-Marie http://emeteuz.com/woven-signals/

Woven Signals aims at fusing new technologies with the fabrication techniques characteristic of traditional textile design to create functional fibers and integrated textiles, specially a woven display.

The textile is woven with a custom-made thermochromic cotton yarn spun with conductive wire. Designed patterns incorporate channels for low-power current. When activated, the generated resistive heat catalyzes the dyed fibers to change color and reveal a hidden, programmatically-controlled content.

Woven Signals is inspired by the mutually informative histories of textiles and communications, and aims to investigate a fiber's ability to transmit information and emotion through visual and tactile interactions.