Understanding Textiles - from Artist to Spectator

Artist As Researcher, Understanding The Tools

The paper begins with a response to the nature of contemporary artists relationships to how computers have permeated the fine art domain and how they affect the creative process. How should artists utilize this tool in order to fully understand and explore its potential? Using the example of a recent project I have undertaken called 'nGen', I shall discuss some aspects of how the computer tool ...

Physical Damage to Textiles

ANY MATERIAL COMPOSED OF FIBRES IS A TEXTILE, AND THIS DEFINITION covers an extremely wide range of products in everyday use. Worldwide, over 35 million tonnes of textile fibre is consumed annually, ending up not only as clothing, upholstery, bed linen and carpets, but also in such items as ropes, seat belts, nets, road stabilisation mats, drainage pipes and tents. It is not surprising that, wh...

Trousseaux: From Weaving Handwoven Textiles to Collecting Mass Commodities

ARTIST: Model-Based Stairway to the Cloud

Over the past decade, cloud services emerged as one of the most promising technologies in IT. Since cloud computing allows improving the quality of software and, at the same time, aims at reducing costs of operating software and hardware, more and more software is delivered as a service in the cloud. However, moving existing software applications to the cloud and making them behave as software ...

Why pay attention to the artist?

A major part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference in Truro (10–12 July) will be to examine the perspective of the artist within medical humanities. In part, this is being raised because it is felt that individual artists can become invisible in our field; it is their work that is displayed, discussed, made example of, often without attribution. One of us re...