Liza Stark is an interdisciplinary designer, artist, and educator based in NYC. Her research investigates the intersection of craft, un/learning, and technology as a space for critical intervention. Her practice combines traditional and conductive fabrics with circuits and code to produce unexpected interactions at a human scale. Liza’s projects include talking memory quilts, feminist revisionist history zines, and organizing Electronic Textile Camp. She is part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design and has presented work at the Center for Craft, The Mill at Prairie Ronde, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the Wassaic Project, ISWC, TEI, GDC, and more.
“I see quilts as a communications technology, a tool merging memory and materiality. Care Processing Unit explores how a hybrid quilt composed of electronic material - textile speakers - and worn fibers - repurposed clothes - might imagine alternate logics of remembering that embrace contradiction, emotion, and a human scale. These CPUs are meant to be carrier bags for individual stories and evolving memories. The CPU I will present explores the curious state of becoming a mother while losing one. Each quilt patch contains a fabric speaker that unlocks conversations, voicemails, celebrations, or other sonic artifacts to stitch new narratives across three generations.”