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Encoding Matter

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Turning to the underside of worked form; on pattern, threshold, and what gets through. A new cluster of pages from the Anarchive 's Silver Reader. Foglets flash and fall; a curtain of tiny, mobile, force-bearing machines pretending, badly, to be nothing at all. The room turns viscous, catches on itself, forgetting the surfaces promised by its grip. The old dream: matter made answerable, speck-by-speck. In 1991, the “pixels” were computational cells in a fine-grained simulation. By the 2000s, the analogy had shifted: what if pixels were volumetric, tactile, adhesive, mobile, material? What shows is the labour. The underside of repeatable f

What future for textiles?

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Tilt the vessel and the roots redirect. Modulate the light, the pattern changes. The technique is simple; what grows from it is anything but. Carole Collet spent over a decade learning to work at the pace of a cactus, aerial roots, mycelium – treating garden and grow-tank as studio, plant and fungus as collaborators. "Designing (for and with) Living Systems" gathers fifteen years of this inquiry: botanical studies, speculative provocations, slow-manufactured objects. Learning the plant's terms, then bending them. https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/designing_living_systems/ A different material, a different decade, the same question in a different key. Move the body and the light redirects. "Membranes and Meshworks" compiles twenty-five years of work at the intersection between textiles and (wearable) computing. Costumes teaching bodies how to move before the wearers knew it was happening; collaborators bu