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Exhibition Catalogs Available

cyberthread — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:07:48 +0000

Exhibition Catalog for Extreme Materials 2@ University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery curated by Marie Via

Exhibition Catalog for the 2011 UFVA New Media Exhibition designed by Juror Ellen Wetmore

Catalog for FIBER Plus Exhibition @ Blue Door Gallery. Designed by Juror Arlé Sklar-Weinstein

Consumption Quilts Travel North to the Mountains

cyberthread — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:46:38 +0000

Contemporary Fiber Artist
A two-person exhibition: Rebecca Mushtare and Hisami Taniguchi
The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain, NY
September 30 – October 29, 2011
Reception: October 15th @ 5pm.

It is an honor to share the space with Hisami, whose work is absolutely beautiful in person (the digital versions do not capture the fine detail work).

Interested in learning how to stitch strange materials? Attend my Extreme Stitching: Adapt Traditional Techniques for Non-traditional Materials workshop at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the arts.

StoryQuilt @ Pixilerations

cyberthread — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:28:38 +0000

StoryQuilt installed @ Pixilerations v.8

Pixilerations [v.8]
September 22 – October 2, 2011
New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks
SOL KOFFLER GALLERY
Gallery Hours: 12:00 – 8:00 pm daily
RISD, CIT Building
169 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI 02903

Check out the short film documenting the installation process. I make a cameo about 2/3 of the way in!

StoryQuilt @ UFVA

cyberthread — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:07:46 +0000

View from outside of the Huret & Spector Gallery at Emerson College.

StoryQuilt did a lot of quilt making during the new media exhibition during the UFVA conference in Boston from August 3-6. Here are some images captured during the reception and the closing morning of the exhibit.

Story told on August 5, during the New Media Reception.

A story told on August 5.

StoryQuilt Debut August 3-6 in

cyberthread — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:24:47 +0000

StoryQuilt. 2011. Installed in Studio.

University Film and Video Association
Annual Conference New Media Exhibition.

August 3 – August 6, 2011

Emerson College: Huret & Spector Gallery
Tufte Performance and Production Center
10 Boylston Place, Sixth Floor
Boston, MA

Reception: 6-8pm on August 5, 2011

View documentation (including video) of StoryQuilt.

New Work in Quilted Consumption Series

cyberthread — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:41:58 +0000

Consumptive Net. 2011. Recycled plastic shopping bags and thread. 13" x 15"

Consumption Portrait #15. 2011. Recycled plastic shopping bags and thread. 8" x 8"

Consumption Portrait #16. 2011. Recycled plastic shopping bags and thread. 7" x 7"

See the whole series!

Consumption Portrait #10. 2011. Recycled plastic shopping bags and thread. 8" x 11"

Consumption Portrait #14. 2011. Recycled plastic shopping bags and thread. 8" x 9"

Consumption Portrait #13. 2011. Recycled plastic shopping bags and thread. 16.5" x 16"

Made in NY Opens March 26

cyberthread — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:10:33 +0000

Consumption Portrait #7. Recycled plastic bags and thread.

March 26- May 29

Made in NY
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
Auburn, NY

Reception: March 27 from 3-5pm

http://www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/exhibits/upcoming_exhibits.html

Fiber PLUS opens March 20

cyberthread — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:13:22 +0000

Consumption Portrait #1 & #8 and Consumption Device installed at Blue Door Gallery. 2011.

March 19 – May 21, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 19 @ 2pm
Curated by: Arlé Sklar-Weinstein

StoryQuilt

cyberthread — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:20:40 +0000

2011. 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, pedal, and projector).

“Tell me a story, and I will make you a quilt.”

StoryQuilt. 2011. Detail. Side View of Quilt.

StoryQuilt. 2011. Installed in Studio.

StoryQuilter. 2011. Lasercut acrylic and custom decals.

Participants are invited to sit at the StoryQuilter (the sewing machine) and tell it a story. Once the participant finishes her story, the StoryQuilter will generate a personalized quilt (projection on a quilted screen) based on the participant’s story. The more the participant “gives” the StoryQuilter vocally, the more the StoryQuilter will put into the participant’s quilt.

Story quilts have often supported an oral history tradition within families. The quilts are regarded as narratives, as interpreted and imaged by the quilter. In this case the quilter is a piece of software, which only understands and interprets measurable components of the participant’s oral story. The software then uses that information to choose fabric colors, the level of detail of the quilt, the pattern to be used, and the scale to be used. If the participant tells the same overarching story in different ways, the resulting quilt will reflect these variations.

StoryQuilt. 2011. Installed in Studio.

Installation Schematic from the Front

Installation Schematic from Above

Feminizing Technology

cyberthread — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:21:33 +0000

2004. Installation (Handmade Paper, Sewn Fabric, 3 Sewing Machine Pedals, Micro-controller, Speakers, Projector)

2003 Installation at Spark Contemporary Gallery

“Feminizing Technology” is an exploration of the antithetical pairing of technology (labeled masculine) and domesticity (labeled feminine). Sewing, embroidery and needlework are common signifiers in feminist art, as well as signifiers of my own matrilineage. My grandmother sews, knits, embroiders, etc. and has complimented her traditional skills with a digitalized sewing machine that can be programmed and used with a computer. Seeing her interest and dependence on technology and the juxtaposition of old and new has provoked me to discover many similarities quilted and stitched work have with digital, pixel based work. Each step of the way I discover how the traditions of the past continue to influence and interact with the formation of traditions of the present. Immersing myself in both the quilting and programming experiences, I hope to reveal an equilibrium of a “genderless” activity.