2010. Software (written with Processing) and Installation (3.5’ square white quilt, small table & stool, thread and thread rack, pins and pin cushion, acrylic 2D sewing machine, microphone and projector).
“Tell me a story, and I will make you a quilt.”
Participants are invited to sit at the StoryQuilter and tell it a story. Once the participant finishes her story, the StoryQuilter translates the story into a quilt. The more the participant “gives” the StoryQuilter vocally, the more the participant will see reflected back in the generated quilt.
Story quilts have often supported an oral tradition within families. The quilts are regarded as narratives, interpreted and imaged by the quilter. In StoryQuilt the quilter is a piece of software, which only understands and interprets measurable components of the participant’s oral story. The software then converts that information into fabric colors, levels of detail, patterns and the scale to be used in the quilted “retelling” of the participant’s story. If the participant tells the same overarching story in different ways, the resulting quilt will reflect these variations.
StoryQuilt
2010. Software (written with Processing) and Installation (3.5’ square white quilt, small table & stool, thread and thread rack, pins and pin cushion, acrylic 2D sewing machine, microphone and projector).
“Tell me a story, and I will make you a quilt.”
Participants are invited to sit at the StoryQuilter and tell it a story. Once the participant finishes her story, the StoryQuilter translates the story into a quilt. The more the participant “gives” the StoryQuilter vocally, the more the participant will see reflected back in the generated quilt.
Story quilts have often supported an oral tradition within families. The quilts are regarded as narratives, interpreted and imaged by the quilter. In StoryQuilt the quilter is a piece of software, which only understands and interprets measurable components of the participant’s oral story. The software then converts that information into fabric colors, levels of detail, patterns and the scale to be used in the quilted “retelling” of the participant’s story. If the participant tells the same overarching story in different ways, the resulting quilt will reflect these variations.