NYC Event: Craft Hackers

A knit piece by Ben Fino-Radin

Here’s a cool panel at the New Museum this Friday:

CRAFT HACKERS

Rhizome.org panel discussion

Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework and computer programming. Panelists include Cat Mazza, who translates moving images into stills knit in yarn; Christy Matson, who uses Jacquard Looms (some of the earliest computers) to knit landscape images from computer games; Ben Fino-Radin, whose witty needlepoint sculptures translate the World Wide Web into yarn and plastic, one pixel at a time; and Cody Trepte, whose embroidery of retired computer punch cards rekindles an old-fashioned love affair with the hand of the artist.