I’ve been feeling quite stuck and blocked,
I tried to reflect on my work, but struggled to find a clear direction,
My research topics and material experiments haven’t fully come together yet,
I felt pressured to fit what I already had into a conceptual framework, especially while writing funding applications,
I’ve been trying to figure out what I really want to explore and what I want to say through my work.
Material Research
How can conductive yarn and thermochromic ink make the invisible flow of electricity visible through heat and colour?
How can knitting copper with different yarns, colours, and three-dimensional forms challenge the conventional appearance and materiality of electronic components?
How can reimagining speakers and microphones through copper and textile techniques challenge what we recognise as technology, while making its hidden mechanisms visible and tangible?:
How can handmade copper antennas reveal the invisible electromagnetic activity of everyday electronic devices?
Meeting Ebru 5.11
_showed her all my material research and shared my struggel
_She was especially intrigued by the knitted flower in relation to your data center research
_She emphasized documenting my decisions, your hands, your processes and how things are made when working with textiles
_encouraged me to recognize the skills I have developed and to make decisions about what to continue. (no need to incorporate every material experiment into my final project, some things can remain part of the learning process, and i can always return to them later)
_ continue using the knitting machine, especially because I had already learned how to hack and work with it.
IDEA SKETCHES:
How does an image change as it moves between digital and textile processes, and what becomes lost, visible, or transformed through the decisions of algorithms, machines, materials, and hands?
What happens when the rigid, functional architecture of a data center is reimagined through the flexible, conductive practice of knitting?
How can knitted copper forms combine textile practice with speakers and microphones to question what counts as technology, while making hidden infrastructures visible and audible?
How can a performance with handmade textile antennas, microphones, and speakers make the hidden infrastructures of a data center audible, exploring what can be heard, transmitted, and what remains inaccessible?
What could a textile server look like, how might it function, and what could it reveal about the hidden material processes of digital infrastructures?
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