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Fri Oct 2 - Sun Jan 24

Open Source Embroidery

Location	Date and Time
Museum of Craft & Folk Art 51 Yerba Buena Lane San Francisco, CA 94103 cross street: between Market & Mission, 3rd & 4th district: SoMa	Fri Oct 2 (6pm) Sun Jan 24 (closes)

Description

The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery and code
as a tool for participatory production and distribution.

San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Folk Art (www.mocfa.org) is pleased to present the project, Open Source Embroidery, which includes workshops and exhibitions that investigate how the open source software development model has been incorporated into the language of cultural participation. This major exhibition at MOCFA brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers and html users that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks. The works experiment with
interdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies.