David McCallum _ Projects!

• • 2013
  • Critters _ Installation
  • 221, 321, 543 _ Weaving
  • Satin and houndstooth software _ Software
• • 2012
  • Looking Up _ Net Art
• • 2011
  • Powers of Satin _ Textile
• • 2010
  • Neighbourhoodie _ Wearable
• • 2009
  • Knitted studies _ Knit
  • Singing Underwear Workshop _ Workshop
  • Frogr _ Wearables prototype
  • Sounding Space _ Public Art Installation
• • 2008
  • Sign Me a Space _ Installation
  • Harper _ Knit
  • Push _ Music
  • Light Play _ Installation
  • Auld Lang Syne 2008 _ Installation
  • I/O Media _ Group
• • 2007
  • Warbike _ Mobile artwork
  • Palimpsest _ Installation
  • Asteroid B612 _ Video
  • i swallow _ Performance
  • Arse Feck _ Net art
  • Auld Lang Syne 2007 _ Installation
• • 2006
  • Interview with Stelarc _ print
  • Geeks don't know it's psychogeography _ print
  • Cricket Farm _ Installation/performance
• • 2005
  • Your Network is Mine _ Performance
  • Big Like Me _ Webcam Film
  • Dear Diary, Dear World _ Net art
  • Attack of the PANTs _ Workshop
  • You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato _ Performance
  • Hugs _ Group
  • Re _ Group
• • 2004
  • mcfalcon-l _ Group
  • Flexing Swine _ Group
  • Drinking Box _ Group
  • Leark _ Group
• • 2003
  • Bench _ Video
  • Bon Appetit! _ Video
  • A Trip to the Zoo _ Film
  • Deconstructing Evil _ Video
  • Experimental Music at the Grad Club _ Event series
  • The United Empire Loyalist Orchestra _ Group
• • 2002
  • The Immediacy Group _ Group
  • O Canada: Three Hours in One and One-half Minute _ Music
  • MIDI Bear _ Toy
  • The Lumber Dog Trio _ Group

Critters

2013

Type

Installation

Keywords

textiles, lace, electronics

Entities

Remfabriken, School of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg

Showing

Reminiscens at Remfabriken, 2013

A lace-making machine is like a physical explosion of the pattern underlying the lace. What was once made by hand is now done by lightning-fast shuttles.

Critters was created during a collaboration between Göteborgs Remfabriken, a former textile mill and "living museum" and The School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg. The movement of the antique lace machine presents a physical representation of the abstract textile pattern that controls it, encoded in punched cards that are fed into the machine.

The movement of the spools of thread was illuminated with LEDs, showing the role of each spool and their movements in the machine, as animals, or dancers.