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Web Warp & Weft, exploring the resonances between the making of textiles and the making of the web

Soumis par NT2 le mer, 10/24/2007 - 16:16

Auteur·e·s:

Brousseau, Simon

Simoneau, Mathieu

Fiche simple

Web Warp & Weft est un site qui offre plusieurs réflexions sur les analogies qu'il est possible d'établir entre la production de textiles et la conception du web. Les textes disponibles sur le site sont des essais et sont divisés en quatorze sections thématiques : "Print", "Colour", "Leisure", "Technology", "Industry", "Terms", "Frames", "Blinds", "Source", "Memorials", "Frame-workers", "Weavers", "Names" et "Design".

Web Warp & Weft, exploring the resonances between the making of textiles and the making of the web

Artiste·s:

Whitehead, Helen

Média:

Internet

Année:

2001

Disponible sur Internet Archive

Infos

Date de dernière consultation de l'oeuvre:

02 Mai 2007

Coordonnées de l'artiste:
helen@helenwhitehead.com
Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

Taxonomies

Nature:

Répertoire

Interactivité:

Navigation à choix multiples

Format:

Image, Texte, Texte animé, Image animée, Hypertexte

Thème:

Théorie, Essai, Métaphore

Média:

Internet

Année:

2001

Langue(s) de l'oeuvre:

Anglais

Traitement numérique des ressources:

HTML

Citation(s)

On a day like today love is everything. As the last words of doomed men and women reach out from phone messages offering, at the last, only love for their dear ones, we fall silent in the face of their pain. It's not often that love features quite so strongly in the everyday news. Dealing with sorrow often takes a physical form: making soup, writing a poem, weeding a garden, cleaning a room. For a weaver the impulse is to create a fabric. For the Web weaver, a memorial in HTML. The Web is full of shrines, now more than ever. Producing an art project could seem irrelevant in the face of such suffering (and did, for several days). But one way of expressing love is in words, and so I carried on and finished the project, and here, in this quiet corner of Web Warp & Weft, maybe we can spare a thought or a prayer for the victims, and make a resolution to spread a little love today.

Discours (notes)

« t Nottingham Trent University, Web writer Helen Whitehead was awarded a grant for Web Warp & Weft. This aimed to explore the ways in which women and men have woven their own stories with yarn and thread, with rugs and quilts and textiles. The website was designed to thread the ideas together and work the threads [stories] into a hypertext with pictures, sound and animation, to create a bigger picture, an overall story. The project was based in Nottingham, which has a particularly notable history of textile creation, including frame-knitting, lacemaking, and more contemporary manufacturing processes. There are surprising and unusual resonances within the creation of what might on the surface seem very different products: both are concerned with frames, print, pattern, layers, colour, nomenclature, technology, narratives, commerce, leisure and much more. The Luddites in Nottinghamshire in the early 19th century rendered stocking-frames unusable as a protest about the terrible treatment of the workers. The industry then was in a difficult state, as it is now. The word "Luddite" has now moved from the textile to the computer industry, becoming a term to describe all those opposed to progress in computer and machine technologies. And most recently the fall of the dot.coms has mirrored the fall of the textile industries... Web Warp & Weft also features a collaboration between Helen Whitehead and East Midlands-based poets Joyce Lambert and Jeremy Duffield, weaving their words into the bright colours of the web. »

Biographie(s)

Whitehead, Helen

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