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RESIDENCY

Ancient Futures Workshop: Weaving with Fiber Optics

December 8 & 9, 2022
Thursday, 6:30–8:30pm ET
Friday, 2–4pm ET
Sliding Scale $10–$30

CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10012

TICKETS

Electronic textiles or e-textiles are fabrics that enable electronic components such as batteries, lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to be embedded in them. Participants will learn how to create a basic weaving, then bring their weaving to life by introducing light and fiber optics into their textile piece. Participant created swatches will be integrated into the larger Ancient Futures textile system.

This workshop is part of Nicole Yi Messier’s CultureHub residency. This workshop will be hosted in-person at the CultureHub studio in NYC. If you are experiencing financial hardship and would like to request a free spot in the workshop, please email info@culturehub.org. If you have any accessibility needs, please email info@culturehub.org.

This event is supported by the CultureHub Residency Program.

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More about Ancient Futures:
Ancient Futures is a participatory media installation capturing sonic textures and creating an evolving fabric of soundscapes. This textile is created with soft electronics to collect, store and cumulatively visualize solicited secrets from viewers using long term data-textile storage.

Ancient Incans used Quipu to document economic and civil data. Enslaved people created a system of railroad quilts as they traversed the Antebellum Southern USA. During WWII, women knit secret war strategies into the sweaters of spies. Technical methods in weaving, knitting, sewing, etc. are able to hide and deliver sensitive details and encode important messages with a visual language that all humans are intimately familiar with: textile.

Artists Nicole Yi Messier and Victoria Manganiello are creating a current, modern precedent in this textile tradition: Ancient Futures is a connection to the past and the future. Visitors are invited to interact with the kinetic textile and participate in adding their sonic messages to this evolving textile.

Image by Marie-Luise Skibbe.