Wire Knitt

The photographs show some of the samples that can be knitted using 2mm silver plated copper wire.  The brother kh 360 generates these surfaces with little error, as long as the tension arm is modified (using a rubber, foam, and pegs).  Error does occur at the edges as each row changes direction.  The most notible 'glitchs' occur when the tension becomes too great as the machine attempts to gather the stiches as programmed by the punch cards. The stretching limit is 5 rows using this gauge of wire.

machinework

It seems the paths of knitting and glitch cross once again. The following image and extract is from Ant Scott's website www.beflix.com, and a series of images called machinework:

[This is] from part of an exhibition at Dean Clough gallery. The concept was "workers operating machines - machines operating workers".

The photographs were scanned from a variety of second-hand books found in [his] local charity shop, retailing at about 30 pence each. They were glitched using dreadfully naive algorithms of the sort [he] used to play with as a 9-year-old on my ZX81 computer. They are simply multiply-nested FOR loops, which index the pixels in complicated, yet linear, ways.

TV Glitch

The increasingly common glitches caused by interupted and lost signals to my digital tv. [Coventry vs Portsmouth]

Reindeer Glitch

 

The log-legged reindeer, caused by a jammed punch-card.

Glitch: Designing Imperfection (Book)

This book, with an introduction by Iman Moradi, 'presents a really colorful and vibrant variety of unusual visual glitch artwork from some very talented people.'

website

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urban knitting

Left - a mooring ring tagged in stockholm, by the masquerade crew.

right - a grateful and warm lampost in houston, texas. dressed by members of knitta please.

also see: http://www.fubiz.net/2008/12/23/urban-knitting/

Corrupt™

The knitting machine 'glitch' photographs reminded me of this movie by the artist Recyclism™
aka Benjamin Gaulon.

'Corrupt™ was first built with Proce55ing. The corruption process start by reading the binary of an image file [JPG or GIF], then some bytes are swaps [the number of replacement is a random value from 1 to 20]. The file is then "saved as" a new document. Depending on the number replacement and of the original compression, the image will have a completely different and unpredictable aesthetics. So from a single image the program can generate millions of corrupted versions. And because it is a real corruption system that damages the binaries of a file, some of the results can’t be showed because they are too damaged..'

Test: Corrupt images

Coincidental machine knitting photos

To my suprise (and delight) a few photos that I have taken of the knitting machine and knitting appear to have been distorted by glitches...

Tim Richardson

‘PHYSICAL FREQUENCIES’ 2007. Film Stills. Limited edition book & 3 minute short film.
O(N)ZE Arts Festival, Brussells 2008.

Portfolio:
http://www.timrichardson.tv/Tim_Richardson_Book.pdf

Quotes

Marshall Mcluhan

First we shape our tools and then tools shape us.

[1967]

Norman White

Mistakes helps us transcend the original idea.

[2003]

Oscar Wilde

To be natural is such a very
difficult pose to keep up.
Oscar Wilde

[1895]