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We will send you a signed, personal Thank You card, from our Search Term Card Collection with graphics based on terms used to scrape Twitter.
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A pledge of $50 will get you the entire set of 12 search term cards in a custom made folder. Each card is a word used in scraping Twitter, from Josef Alber's statement, "If one says 'Red' – and there are fifty people listening, ...there will be fifty reds in their minds..."
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We will send you a signed and numbered (ed. 100) set of The Search Term Card Collection in a custom made folder.
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You will get a copy of our Blurb book The Tapestry in the Digital Age, which documents in photographs with working notes and diagrams the tapestry project — from its inception to reality.
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Gets you a signed and lettered (A-Z) copy of our Blurb book The Tapestry in the Digital Age.
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The signed and numbered Search Term Card Collection, the signed and lettered Blurb book The Tapestry in the Digital Age AND 1 DEADLY SINS snow globe of your choice from the signed, open edition. FYI: Greed, Lust, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy.
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The entire set of 7 DEADLY SINS snow globes from the signed and lettered (A-Z) edition. The lettered set includes a special GREED snow globe, cast using gold leaf, along with our artist book on SIN.
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Your very own custom made tapestry panel with data scraping of your choice: stock market anyone? And a considerable amount of gratitude -- for life.
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NORA LIGORANO and MARSHALL REESE collaborate together as Ligorano/Reese.
Collaboration is the framework behind our work, blending each of our diverse talents into a singular voice and vision.
Our pursuit is an ongoing investigation into the impact of technology on culture and the associations and meanings that the media brings to images, language and speech.
We use unusual materials and processes to make our limited edition multiples, videos, sculptures and installations. We take and manipulate images, audio and text from old media: print, television, radio, woven textiles, and other forms to combine them with the new: internet and mobile telecommunications.
We have received funding and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, Art Matters, NYFA and been artists in residence at Montalvo Arts Center, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the MacDowell Colony, and STEIM.
I just got an email from you asking for our address if we hadn't sent it already. I don't remember if we did or not, but there's no link or return email address to respond to - your email address is a "do not reply" address. How should we send you our address? Thx.
Congratulations! Part of what makes this project fun and meaningful to me is that I'm such an Albers fan - just got the reprint edition of his two-volume "Interaction of Colors" set, wading through,,,
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this is the kind of stuff that in the future will end up on the walls of our home lol. Imagine customizing the ceiling to look like whatever you want. I bet this could be further applied later in life to other things too
Hi Arianis,
In answer to you comment:
Thanks, and glad you like the tapestry.
As far as the use of the term "tapestry" we call this woven piece a tapestry more from the point of view that historical tapestries conveyed stories, stories of war, power, battles, with icons and symbolic imagery like unicorns--images that communicated pictorially, ideas, thoughts, fantasies, beliefs, historical moment in time-- in woven form.
We see our textile as a communication textile, and the form of a tapestry seemed to be the best and most appropriate model given the fact that our textile literally connects to the outside world, to tell a story about our culture, We think that while medieval tapestries tell narratives, in the 21st century, we find our stories threaded and networked throughout the web. We used the word "tapestry" metaphorically.
I hope this helps to give an clearer idea of what we are thinking about with this form.
You are right in that the structure is a plain weave.
Thanks for your comment,
Best, Nora
Really neat idea. I love the combination of the tradition of weaving with modern technology. It's a really good idea and the results are quite lovely. The homage to the Albers as well is a really good tie-in. They were incredibly important artists in their time and their contributions to color theory and textiles are long-standing.
The only complaint I have about this is that you're calling the panels a tapestry, but they're fiber optic panels of balanced plain weave. Tapestry is a (usually) pictorial, weft-faced weave, not a balanced weave. I realize that's mostly from the standpoint of trying to come up with a term for the piece other than "the piece" or "the artwork" but it's misleading to the general public who don't know anything about textiles and tapestry.
Wow, the pick and posting yesterday really helped to boost our funds--we are half way there!!!
Thanks to all of you for your words of encouragement, and your generosity .
Tell your friends, post this on your facebook page--let's get our numbers up even further!
Best, Nora and Marshall
Awesome idea. The first use that popped into my head was using it to display the status of our server farm, let it show network traffic and status of the machines, etc. Much more detailed and intuitive than the usual nagios error messages and console tools.
excellent! Can you tell me if the rgb leds feed light into the fibre optic threads? or are they simply used to rear illuminate the threads?
Thanks
This is awesome. My weaving and spinning guild is making projects with an Aurora Borealis theme. Fiber optics were the first thing that popped into my head. I hope someday I can make a piece like this!
cool! are your fiberoptic strands completely smooth? in the video it looks like they get darker towards the center... if you rough them up a bit with light sand paper, those areas will shine brightly.
great
It really looks Great!!
Hey Nora and Marshall, this looks absolutely incredible!! I can't wait to see more.
this is my first somment