Ancient Futures

December 10, 2022
Presented by CultureHub

 

Resident Artist Nicole Yi Messier and Victoria Manganiello created an open studio showcasing ‘Ancient Futures’, a multi-layered woven textile whose surface visually fluctuates based on the sentiment analysis of visitors’ shared secrets. 

In addition to the participatory textile installation, the open studio also displayed weavings created during workshops at CultureHub and large and small scale prototypes and swatches that provide visitors an insight into the production and process of weaving with fiber optics and e-textiles. This open studio allowed the community to help Nicole Yi Messier and Victoria Manganiello to workshop and explore the storytelling potentials of “Ancient Futures”.

Photos of the evolving piece will be documented on craftwork.today.

Nicole’s reflection on her residency can be found on our Read Page.

Ancient Futures was developed in the CultureHub Residency Program.

CREDITS
Nicole Yi Messier – Lead Artist / Instructor, “Craftwork Collective”
Victoria Manganiello – Lead Artist / Instructor, “Craftwork Collective”

PARTICIPANTS
Yuxiang Cheng, Ying Ye, Veritee Hill, Sheha Ganguly, Sally Kong, Micaelle Lages, Melanie Wong, Lorena Estrella, Leigh Ollman, Lea Naisberg, Layla Klinger, Lauren Shapiro, June Shin, Jessie Mordine Young, Lorena Estrella, Jeeyoon Hyun, Jasmine Hawng, Janice Fongkin, Itala Aguilera, Emi Wu, Cat Mahari, Andrea Miranda Salas, Abby Hack

CULTUREHUB
DeAndra Anthony – Technical Director
Sangmin Chae – Creative Technologist
Mattie Barber-Bockelman, Billy Clark – Creative Producing

〈 PROJECTS