Stitching Together: texting message sewing circle

Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström's, two artists living in Sweden and working at the Växjö
Interactive Institute, have set up a text messaging sewing circle called Stitching Together, which combines text messaging and traditional embroidery.

In Stitching Together, groups and random exhibition visitors can actually participate in creating the work: they can send text messages to a computer-controlled sewing machine, which embroiders them onto a piece of cloth. These embroidered items are then displayed.

Most of us have text messages in our mobile phones that we do not want to throw away. They are connected to places, situations and people we love, hate, miss and in any case have a relation to.

In stitching together we invite you and other text message-users to share text messages and transform them into tangible and physical text messages made out of thread and fabric. We want to make it possible for you to make these intimate, digital treasures longer lasting and stitch together different techniques, different speeds, people of different ages and different usage of communication. channels.

Related projects:

-- EMS craft project - EMS is a mobile phone craft project created for the New Forms Festival 2004 by Kate Pemberton. Designs have been created that can be accessed using your mobile phone, and as patterns to cross stitch.

-- SMS messages become embroidered - UK-based artist Kate Pemberton describes how she's been working on a project called SMS (short message samplers) these are embroidered picture messages used on mobile phones.

emily | 8:52 AM | SMS and the Arts |
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