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irene posch + ebru kurbak build programmable computer using golden thread embroidery
irene posch and ebru kurbak have used historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer. in questioning the current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us the two artists have built the embroidered computer using solely a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glass and metal beads, and traditional crafting routines and patterns.
designboom, das erste und beliebteste digitale Magazin für Architektur & Designkultur. www.designboom.com/art/irene-posch-ebru-kurbak-embroidered-computer
A Programmable 8-Bit Computer Created Using Traditional Embroidery Techniques and Materials
The Embroidered Computer by Irene Posch and Ebru Kurbak doesn’t look like what you might expect when you think of a computer. Instead, the work looks like an elegantly embroidered textile, complete with glass and magnetic beads and a meandering pattern of copper wire. The materials have conductive properties which are arranged in specific patterns to create electronic functions. Gold pieces on top of the magnetic beads flip depending on the program, switching sides as different signals are channeled through the embroidered work.
Called the “Tate Modern of the Internet,” Colossal is an international platform for contemporary art and visual expression that explores a vast range of creative disciplines.
www.thisiscolossal.com/8-bit-computer-textile
How to make an embroidered computer
Artist Irene Posch explains how she created the 'embroidered computer,' an 8-bit computer made of cloth, beads and gold thread.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/1454651459915
23 Women Leading the World of Fashion Technology
With a background in media and computer science, researcher and artist Irene Posch’s work explores the integration of technological development into the fields of art and craft, and its social, cultural, technical and aesthetic implications. Along with Kurbak, Posch was the key researcher of the artistic research project Stitching Worlds at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute for Industrial Design II headed by Fiona Raby, leading to the creation of, among other things, her embroidered computer. She is a Professor of Design & Technology/Textiles at the Institute for Art and Education at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz.
The Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA), a Pratt Institute initiative, is a hub for ethical fashion and design that provides design entrepreneurs, creative technologists and industry professionals with the resources they need to transform their ideas into successful, triple bottom line businesses.
bkaccelerator.com/23-women-leading-the-world-of-fashion-technology
PRESSEARTIKEL 2019
Jänner bis März 2019
Presseartikel zur Arbeit von Irene Posch, Leiterin der Studienrichtung Gestaltung: Technik.Textil an der Kunstuniversität Linz in bekannten Designmagazinen und Onlineplattformen.designboom
16-01-2019irene posch + ebru kurbak build programmable computer using golden thread embroidery
irene posch and ebru kurbak have used historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer. in questioning the current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us the two artists have built the embroidered computer using solely a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glass and metal beads, and traditional crafting routines and patterns.
designboom, das erste und beliebteste digitale Magazin für Architektur & Designkultur. www.designboom.com/art/irene-posch-ebru-kurbak-embroidered-computer
COLOSSAL
13-02-2019A Programmable 8-Bit Computer Created Using Traditional Embroidery Techniques and Materials
The Embroidered Computer by Irene Posch and Ebru Kurbak doesn’t look like what you might expect when you think of a computer. Instead, the work looks like an elegantly embroidered textile, complete with glass and magnetic beads and a meandering pattern of copper wire. The materials have conductive properties which are arranged in specific patterns to create electronic functions. Gold pieces on top of the magnetic beads flip depending on the program, switching sides as different signals are channeled through the embroidered work.
Called the “Tate Modern of the Internet,” Colossal is an international platform for contemporary art and visual expression that explores a vast range of creative disciplines.
www.thisiscolossal.com/8-bit-computer-textile
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08-03-2019How to make an embroidered computer
Artist Irene Posch explains how she created the 'embroidered computer,' an 8-bit computer made of cloth, beads and gold thread.
www.cbc.ca/player/play/1454651459915
The Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA)
06-02-201923 Women Leading the World of Fashion Technology
With a background in media and computer science, researcher and artist Irene Posch’s work explores the integration of technological development into the fields of art and craft, and its social, cultural, technical and aesthetic implications. Along with Kurbak, Posch was the key researcher of the artistic research project Stitching Worlds at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute for Industrial Design II headed by Fiona Raby, leading to the creation of, among other things, her embroidered computer. She is a Professor of Design & Technology/Textiles at the Institute for Art and Education at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz.
The Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator (BF+DA), a Pratt Institute initiative, is a hub for ethical fashion and design that provides design entrepreneurs, creative technologists and industry professionals with the resources they need to transform their ideas into successful, triple bottom line businesses.
bkaccelerator.com/23-women-leading-the-world-of-fashion-technology
"The Embroidered Computer"
Univ.-Prof. Mag. DI Irene Posch