Last night’s events in Brighton’s ‘Cultural Quarter’ proved, if proof was needed, that the spirit of collaboration and the creative exploration of new technology is well and truly thriving. At the Lighthouse event artist Rachel Beth Egenhoefer offered an insight into her practice and recent residence at Brighton University where she has collaborated with lecturers and technicians, in disciplines as diverse at robotics and ceramics. The resultant new work includes a resin cast computer keyboard (pictured above, 2nd right) and the creation of first Wii knitting needles!
Rachel sites her Commodore 64 Computer and Fisher Price Loom as defining objects of her childhood, both of which are clear influences for the knitted representations of data (pictured above, far right) which she has also produced using a crude but effective one pixel = one stitch formula. She isn’t however planning on producing Flash inspired jumpers or HTML scarfs so someone else will have to take those products to Dragons Den.
A few doors away, The Basement was by contrast host to far noisier evidence of collaborative work with the BRUSSELS MEETS BRIGHTON: the Meta-Hub pre launch event. A teaser/tester for the forthcoming London exhibition, being held at the Shunt Lounge between 30 April and the 3 May, the pre launch aim was to demonstrate the main concepts the project and included live music (pictured above, far left), live art, video mixing and a random but fantastic display of choice album covers (pictured above, 2nd left).
With a live Radio Reverb broadcast and over 200 people in attendance thrown into the meta-hub mix, there was certainly a buzz at the event which was seemingly undiminished by the general confusion about what was actually going on!?
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