2014 Embracing Innovation: Craft ACT

Pattern Stations

Embracing Innovation Vol 4: Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre,

17 July - 30 August 2014

2025 - presented at 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Stanford University, California

Pattern Stations is an experimental installation that explores the concept of designing an “interactive lace tool” that generates digital patterning, either intimately on a screen or as large-scale projections in a space. The project evolved out of an ongoing collaboration with Associate Professor Bert Bongers at UTS.

This experimental piece explores intersections between analogue textiles and digital technologies. Digital patterns were generated through interactions between the viewer and the lace. Small lace motifs rest on a clear perspex shelf hovering above a screen. As the viewer moves the lace, sensors capture this movement, generating digital patterns in real-time through video feedback. The effect is an infinite kaleidoscope of colour, pattern, and movement, with which the viewer has a direct, autonomous relationship.

The project was part of a suite of tests conducted as part of my Phd research at RMIT University.

Dimensions: vary, either small scale or projected at a large scale in space

Materials: silks, sensors, computer screen, perspex shelves