This is the companion website to the installation WYRD, shown at the Computational Arts MA/MFA degree show at Goldsmiths university of London, built by JAKOB JENNERHOLM HAMMAR
In the installation, digital weavings hang from the wall, burnt onto paper with a thermal printer. The patterns are constructed through algorithmic procedures and emergent systems encountered and interacted with through bodily movements. They are the proposed results of generative weaving drafts or notations. Drafts used as navigational tools, as codified images of a process or maps visualizing the setup and operation of a weaving loom to create suggested structures and patterns. They are studies of the vivid connections between weaving and digital technology, of fate, agency, responsibility and necessity. A reflection on the tensity of living and creating while having little or no control yet participating in and constantly influencing all of one’s surroundings.
Next to the prints, an interactive sculpture lets the viewer co-create patterns together with a computational system, channelled through ever changing weaving drafts and printed in real time. Bodily movements, captured by a camera, can be used to navigate the operations of a digital loom and to influence emergent forces, creating unfolding patterns. The work invites you to read as well as make patterns, to participate in a process where one is never in full control of the outcome but always interfering and influencing it as part of a collective creative process.
On this website a series of sketches or experiments are presented. They are exploring certain mechanics and functions of weaving drafts, pattern making a contemplating a few ideas and themes that surrounds the project.