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In conjunction with San Jose’s ZERO 1 festival, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles presents artworks created using digital technologies, historical works that anticipate digital image techniques, and an installation of digitized and engineered clothing that seem almost aware.
ZERO 1 is a biennial exhibition of compelling experiences made possible at the intersection of art and digital culture: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge. ZERO 1 will be held June 4 – June 8,2008 at venues all over downtown San Jose.
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Black Locust (Detail) by Bhakti Ziek, 2004
Fourbearers (Detail) by Lisa Lee Peterson, 2007
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April 1 – June 8, 2008
Core Memory / Peripheral Vision features the work of eight of the most renowned digital Jacquard artists working today. These artists don’t celebrate technology with their digitally enhanced textiles; rather, they harness the technology to create mostly large scale explorations of the very personal: family and nature. From Lia Cook’s intricately textured self and family portraits to Bhakti Ziek’s painterly works that create a sense of three-dimensions with their merging of text and natural images, this exhibition shows a range of personal and artistic responses to developments in woven digital technology.
Digital Jacquard looms don’t weave for the artist; this is still primarily done by hand. These looms do enable artists to render any digital image in their weaving by providing a much finer-grained control of individual warp threads of the loom than can be managed by traditional weaving and human memory. Each thread is a separate element enabling unlimited possibilities for design and patterning. Core Memory / Peripheral Visions showcases interpretations of this provocative new technology in the skilled hands of talented fiber artists.
Many people believe that the original Jacquard loom’s use of punch cards for the storage and input of data influenced the early development of the computer. Charles Babbage himself owned a portrait of Jacquard that was created on a Jacquard loom, suggesting that the weaver’s work influenced his thinking.
Included artists:
Louise Lemieux Berube
Cathy Bolding
Lia Cook
Victor De La Rosa
Sheila O’Hara
Lisa Lee Peterson
Cynthia Schira
Bhakti Ziek
This exhibition is sponsored by Tronrud Engineering Department, Digital Weaving Norway.
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April 1 – June 8, 2008
Pixels & Pieces considers how quiltmakers’ use of one-patch patterns anticipated the way computers use pixels – the acronym for “picture elements” – to create visually dynamic abstract patterned and pictorial images. Drawn primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibit offers a glimpse of the immense variety and vitality of 19th and 20th century quilts that deploy discrete, same sized units of colored cloth in repeat fashion to suggest depth of field, perspective, a landscape and a still life.
Help the Museum acquire three of the historical quilts in this exhibition.
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Perspectives II: Going Forward by Looking Back by Gloria Hansen, 2001
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April 1 – June 8, 2008
Advanced Geometry: Gloria Hansen is a selection of art quilts by a self-described computer nerd and one of the world’s foremost experts on computer-generated quilt design. Hansen’s gorgeously and intricately designed and executed art quilts definitely feel of-the-moment but also owe a debt of gratitude to the Op-Art of the 1960s. Hansen has mastered the use of bold geometry and concentric lines to achieve surprising beauty at the same time fooling your eye into seeing vibration, depth and motion. |
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Knitter’s Tapestry by Daniela K. Rosner and Kimiko Ryokai
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April 1 – June 8, 2008
Awareables: Conscious Clothing is an exhibition of works by artists who were featured in the SIGGRAPH fashion show Unravel. This exhibition of 'aware' wearables demonstrates the imaginative and innovative works possible at the intersection of technology and fiber art.
Jacket Antics, Barbara Layne's and research assistants at Studio subTela's LED-embedded jackets that react when their wearers touch.
Knitter's Tapestry, Daniela K. Rosner and Kimiko Ryokai’s dress knitted of videotape that itself tells the story of the knitter’s journey that it has recorded.
Peau d’Âne, Valerie Lamontagne's creations which brings ‘impossible’ dresses from the fairy tale of the same name to life, including dresses that transform based on atmospheric data and changes in the sun and moon.
Disappearing Dress, a video of a dress constructed of a water soluble polymer which, when dissolved, turns into a liquid gel which can be reconstituted into a solid once more or used to grow plants. Created by artist and designer Helen Storey, Tony Ryan, scientist, University of Sheffield and Trish Belford, textile designer at Interface at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.
This exhibition is sponsored by Applied Materials.
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