About Ele
Dr Ele Carpenter is a curator and artist researching the relationship between craft and code within contemporary visual art. She is a Lecturer on the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Research Fellow with HUMlab in partnership with BildMuseet at the University of Umeå. In 2009-10 she curated the exhibition Open Source Embroidery which was presented at BildMuseet and the Museum of Crft and Folk art in San Francisco. During 2010 - 2011 Ele will be working on a new publication 'Open Source Crafter'.
Tweet It’s Spring-Winter time and I’m back in Umeå catching up with HUMlab and the BildMuseet, celebrating the Easter Witches. About to finish Gibson and Sterling’s classic Steam Punk novel ‘The Difference Engine’ which imagines a Victorian age of steam … Continue reading →
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Tweet Way back in the summertime we were delighted that artists Jen Southern (UK), Jen Hamilton and Chris St Amand (Canada) were able to come to Umea and set up their Running Stitch artwork in the Open Source Embroidery exhibition … Continue reading →
Tweet The Open Source Embroidery exhibition opens at BildMuseet on Saturday at 13.30 and we are busy installing the exhibition this week. It’s been brewing since 2005, and has taken the truly interdisciplinary vision of both HUMlab and BildMuseet to … Continue reading →
Tweet 24 – 30 January 2009 12.00 – 17.00 daily Vernissage: Friday 23rd January 4-6pm Syjunta (GYRMBC): Tuesday 27th January 2-4pm Syjunta (Yarn): Thursday 29th January 2-4pm HUMlab Syjunta is an intervention of patterned code and encoded craft into the … Continue reading →
Tweet Tuesdays at HUMlab, below the University Library. Thursdays at the Fine Art School (Konsthögskolan) Artists, designers, programmers and craftspeople are invited to come along to the Open Source Embroidery workshops run by Ele Carpenter. The workshops will provide the … Continue reading →
Tweet Hej, I’m Ele Carpenter, and I’m one of the new Research Fellows at HUMlab. I’m here for a year to develop the Open Source Embroidery project in partnership with HUMlab and the Art School at Umea University. The project … Continue reading →