Knitting pixel graphics into creative textiles

How can complex pixel graphics be translated into fashion objects? Collective Quadrature introduced their hacked knitting machines.

This DIY approach bypasses the rigid fashion industries and enabled participants to produce textiles based own their individually designed graphics patterns.

Behind the scenes

The workshop hosts explain the digital and analog workflow for producing creative knitting patterns – and participants show their lovely made textiles.

The hosts

Quadrature

Artist, Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Quadrature’s artistic research focuses on data and physical experiments. The Berlin based artist duo understands technology as means to read and write realities. Together they pursues a transdisciplinary approach, using various media such as time-based performance and installation as well as classical sculptural and two-dimensional works. For some years, the artists have been working on the methods and stories involved in exploring our world and the cosmos around us. For Quadrature the universe represents an intangible but very real place for their reflections, evoking both the most elemental emotions and the most advanced scientific theories. The boundaries and limitations the human mind and its physical representations encounter resonates in all their work.