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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'.

Coal Powered Computers

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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