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Museum of Craft and Folk Art

October 1 - January 25, 2010

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51 Yerba Buena Lane San Francisco, CA 94103
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The Open Source Embroidery You Are What You Buy
The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution. Public Reception: October 1, 6-8pm 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 withinterdisciplinary approaches to modifying patterns, the DIY culture of hacking and sampling in sound, GPS and mobile technologies. Michele Pred will be giving a talk and a presentation about her mobile phone interactive 2D Barcode embroidery pieces at the museum on November 19th at 7pm. Artists: Access Space, Suzanne Brook Martin, Ele Carpenter, Iain Clark, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Emma Ferguson, Flare Productions, Paul Grimmer, Richard Hamilton, Suzanne Hardy, HUMlab Workers, James Hutchinson, Charlene Lam, Kristina Lindström & Åsa Stahl, Sampler Collective, Sophie McDonald & Davide Della Casa, Travis J. Meinolf, Kate Pemberton, Trevor Pitt, Michele Pred, Clare Ruddock, Hamilton, Southern & St Amand, Becky Stern, Haishu Zhang. Michele Pred is a conceptual artist who works with found/confiscated objects and technology imbued with cultural and political meaning. Her work has been reviewed and featured by The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, ARTnews, Art in America, WIRED, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Ready Made Magazine, Associated Press Television, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, ABC, The San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera (Italy), TV4 and Dagens Nyheter (Sweden). Museum Hours: Monday - Friday (closed Wednesday): 11am - 6pm Saturday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm