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Animation, stop motion and computing have a lot of possibilities and techniques for expressing ideas and stories… Following last posts regarding textiles, I simply got an idea to collect few animated and stop motion films which were designed with the help of knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepoint…

Science Project: Temperature by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
hand-stitched cotton doily, 2005

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Last summer Textile Museum of Canada presented Judy Chicago’s When Women Ruled the World, an exhibition covering 40 years of her art practice. Judy Chicago is shown as pioneer in many senses, resolving the stereotypes of female art, textile art, community art…., assaulting century-long models of aesthetics, patriarchal society and men-assigned monumentality.

Would God be Female? by  Judy Chicago

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It’s been a while since I was writing about textile art – but recently Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto took me to some new horizons of art that simultaneously goes for aesthetic and engaged. His latest exhibition ‘The Edges of the World’ has just been opened in Hayward Gallery in Southbank Centre in London, and created specifically for this occasion.

Ernesto Neto, Horizon of events III, detail

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Remember the articles on textile art that covered artists who took part at Balkan Fiber Art and Remade – Art service 2 (Sremski Karlovci & Belgrade, Serbia)? Well, now you can also find them in the 1st issue of Punkt Magazine, publication of Punctum for art experiment, published in Belgrade.
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Body Pixel’s friend eTextile Fashionista or, as one blogger entitled her lately – Neuro Fashion artist, Lynne Bruning invites you to show your wearable technology work at the eTextile Fashion Show, which is going to be on view on 22nd of May in Fiesta Hall Stage, in San Mateo – California.

Kristin Neidlinger: Galvanic Extimacy Responder

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