 Spent four amazing days working at the TextielLab, with Stef Miero the weave product developer and intern Charlotte, to work on samples on the Dornier industrial loom. It is a wonderful research facility, with very skilled textile designers. These are my samples prior to being rolled to bring home.
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 Fluid Data Launched on the massive 8m high MediaWall. This is a full resolution of six digital jacquard hand woven panels, re-digitized and assembled as a series of 12 slides that include front and back components and rotate on the big screen. See the series via the live web link http://artdesign.bathspa.ac.uk/mediawall/ or https://twitter.com/MediaWallBSU?ref_src=twsrc^tfw. Make sure you are looking during the GMT hours posted! With assistance from Sophia Borowska, and Anthony Head and Neil Glen at Bath Spa.   Experimenting with staging options for Fluid Data in Canal Complex studio. Blue paintings in background are studio-mate Kathleen Vaughan's work.
A very productive time was had working with a 6-colour tapestry warp and advanced weave structures. See the following blog for photographs: http://www.materialcodesephemeraltraces.com/wdrg-weaving-samples-blog Spent two weeks weaving on a punch-card jacquard loom set up for weaving velvet. The threads for the loops or cut pile are on weighted spools at the back of the loom, allowing different lengths to be used as needed. I enjoyed manipulating the punch-cards and seeing how many variations it was possible to weave from the same data. Brass rods, either solid or with a small groove for cutting, are inserted and either pulled out after further rows of weaving the base cloth or carefully cut with a blade in the small brass tool. My thanks to the team at Lisio!
A visiting researcher at the CoCA School of Design, Kelly Thompson, will give an artist talk which explores influences of nomadic, embodied and digital interactions, through which she weaves narratives of location, materializing transitory moments of time, place and politics. 14 Apr 2015 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Te Ara Hihiko - The Pit College of Creative Arts - new building Entrance E off Tasman St Wellington, New Zealand more info ArtistAtSea - Click here to read about my 25 days on board a container ship traveling from the USA to New Zealand and updates on travel related to my sabbatical research. http://www.artistatsea.com/ I am on research leave from Concordia University until 31 December, 2015. However, please get in touch with me through the contact page if you have any questions related to the artwork. Material Codes: Ephemeral Traces is a three-year research-creation project that received funding by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC) in May 2014. The project engages a methodology of contemporary fine arts production, critiques and enquiry in an exploration of thematics that marry the digitally implicit with the materially expressive. Material Codes: Ephemeral Traces visually explores the relationship between digital data, scale, trustworthiness and fallibility thorough the medium of woven textiles. For one component of the project, we are inviting contributions from anyone who would like to submit a digital data file for potential sampling into woven form. Please see this link for more details. www.materialcodesephemeraltraces.com Weaving on a traditional punch-card jacquard loom set up for weaving silk velvet was captivating. Spent 3 weeks in July learning this process and how to manipulate the same cards and loom to achieve a variety of effects in the velvet images. Enjoyed glitching material in a pre-digital process. Hope to return next summer to complete a series. 
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