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Electronic Needlework

Installation of textiles and needlework tools adapted for electric engineering by Irene Posch

Inside Bristol Library, a person is viewing a glass cabinet filled with batteries, wires, and embroidery materials in front of a plaque which reads 'electronic needlework by Irene Posch.

Imagine what technologies might be like if they were made by craftswomen. Would they be soft, patched together, or made in social circles? Textile needlework tools, adapted to be used for electric engineering, were exhibited as a tangible provocation on the roles and cultural assumptions of the technologies, and indeed crafts, that these tools enable, how, and for whom.
For Control Shift 2020 ‘Electronic Needlework’ was presented in Bristol Central Library.

Image credit:
Ibi Feher

About the artist

Irene Posch

Irene Posch is a researcher and artist with a background in media and computer science. Her work explores the integration of technological development into fields of art and craft, and vice versa, investigating the social, cultural, technical and aesthetic implications thereof. She is a Professor for Design & Technologies at the University of Art and Design Linz, Institute for Art and Education. Her research and artistic work has been presented internationally in academic conferences, festivals, and museums among them the ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), V&A London (UK), Ars Electronica Linz (AT), Laboratore Arte Alameda Mexico City (MX), Biennale International Design St. Etienne (FR), Istanbul Design Biennial (TR) and the MAK Vienna (AT).

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