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In order to explore the relationship between the digital and the physical, I thought it would be interesting to consider making digital more tangible. Here, I knitted the QR code that links to this blog , I like the way that there are then many different elements to this piece; the knitted object itself, the imagery of the QR code and then this blog itself being held within the piece.
Knitting as a ‘craft’ process feels comfortable and recognisable , which is quite conflicting with the cold ,hard concept of codes and binary. I find it quite interesting that in working out the knitting chart to make this felt quite similar to what I perceive binary to be , working my way along each row in a black and white formula being basically; ‘0011001011101001110000010’.
- The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
Expressionism away from the canvas
In order to develop an understanding of
These pieces were informed by research into Gestalt theory , I was interested to see that the process of automatic drawing basically ignores all of these structures and after experimenting with automatic techniques on different software’s I edited an ‘automatic spreadsheet’ to reflect this. I like the idea of the starting point having been a very structured spreadsheet, often associated with formal workplace environments.