Thursday 17 May 2012

Textiles, Technology and a Magical Future





In my research into laser etched fabrics I came across the textile artist Kate Goldsworthy. She developed many processes for up cycling, renovating and inventing textiles for fashion and interior use.


Kate Goldsworthy is a Senior Lecturer for the Textile Futures masters programme at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. An independent designer and researcher specialising in new finishing technologies, materials R&D and design for sustainability. Kate is currently completing a practice based PhD project exploring emerging technologies, to reinvent ‘digital finishing processes' for recyclable materials.





Science has been linked to textile art for centuries, looms, spinning machines, dyes, synthetic and natural fibres and too much to list. I got to thinking about how our group have all in some way, touched on science and technology in our work and how what could be dry formula and complex theories can be transformed into art that can be; spiritual, decorative, opulent, forms in space, words or sounds.



Developing the concept of sound as art, I found an interesting blog.
 http://textileresearchdiary.wordpress.com/author/yasmin1m/page/2/ One of the posts was the making of a commercial for digital printing inks. Using sound to explode colour and filming it in motion. The picture snips I have posted are nothing compared to seeing the moving colours. Think psycadelic lava lamps! Ignore the big sell, watch the process of creating an advert, and how sound can produce colour in space. We are near the end of the blogging task and it is making me sad.













3 comments:

  1. watch this video Louise! it's absolutely amazing if you loved those colourful droplet pictures. trippy
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNI-LIVs-to

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  2. Thanks Madeleine, that was awesome, have a look at the byebye black board post if you can you may like it

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  3. I just spent 3 minutes grinning wildly at colourful blobs. It's similar to the other film you posted of the water droplet bouncing on the water-proof fabric. It could almost be an under-the-sea plant growing over a long time but sped up, rather than splashing ink that has been slowed down.

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