Cat Mazza
"The Nike Blanket Petition started with learning how to crochet. I was interested in the tradition of pre-industrial crafts, tacit knowledge, learning to make stuff with my grandmother. I then met up with a local craft group and they agreed to help. Gradually more and more people participated."
Cat Mazza is an artist whose work combines craft with digital media to explore the overlaps between textiles, technology and labor. She is the founder of microRevolt, a web-based project that hosts the freeware knitPro.
Combining popular practices, historical investigations and electronic social networks, microRevolt updates the long heritage of sewing as a communication tool and it shows in a paradoxical, though very practical way what feminization of manual labor is and how global economies work.
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Cat Mazza and her work: combining textile, technology and labor activism. knitPro: a free web application that translates digital images into knitted craft and is based on preindustrial craft circles that freely shared patterns and passed them down from generation to generation. |
The Nike Blanket Petition. Final destination: Istanbul, Turkey. The show in a contemporary craft museum 9 miles from Nike headquarters. |
Questions and answers Her new project: a database of textile patterns and visiting traditional textile communities in different countries. The responses of senators when received the balaclavas. |
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Aviv explains the Knit Graffiti workshop in Barcelona during the festival: participants are knitting pieces with their hands and will use them to write words in Poble Sec, engaging neighbors and inviting them to express their opinion about their life in the neighborhood. Then they'll make pictures and discover what kind of feedback they can determine with this method. |
