Stitchlab
Digital Embroidery with Household Sewing Machines
Date
Place
VZA
3rd floor, Raum 309Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 WienOpen in maps +
Departments
Design, Architecture and Environment for Art Education
Department website +Head of Department: Christoph Kaltenbrunner
Art and Communication Practices
Department website +Head of Department: Sofia Bempeza, Annette Krauss
Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design
Department website +Head of Department: Ebba Fránsen Waldhör
Format
Stitchlab is a research initiative that transforms disused household sewing machines into open-source embroidery machines. Based on digital manufacturing techniques and the modular logic of 3D printing, the analog machine is given a digital brain – making it programmable and networkable, opening up new creative possibilities. The construction of a Stitchlab machine will be made accessible. Through embroidery the artistic applications and drive systems of the transformed machine can be tested.
Paul-Reza Klein, Ute Neuber, Walter Lunzer (Students of the seminar Smart Textiles)