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A slightly different approach that was also part of this project was to also record
everyday motions with your hands – so I recorded the motion of drying up.
Taking a mug from the draining board, and a tea towel and you wipe it. So that
is a recording of me doing that and then taking the mug and putting it on the
side. Then taking this information of the recording of the motion, the action
recording it as lines then digitally printing out tea towels with the motion of
using the tea towel transposed as a decoration. That is essentially what my
research is about.
9.3 Aoife Ludlow
Aoife Ludlow is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and works as Research
Assistant at Interface: Research in Art, Technologies and Design.
Aoife Ludlow
www.aoifestuff.com
Hi. My name is Aoife Ludlow and I’d like to say thanks to Fast-uk and folly for
inviting me along. First of all, when I started thinking about what I was going to
say about ‘Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders’ I had a bit of a panic attack.
Then I thought about it a little bit and started thinking about my work and
eventually realised that even going back quite a bit that pretty much everything
I’d ever worked on had some kind of a border or a boundary somewhere that got
a bit blurred and a bit confused and that seems to have been quite apparent in
the last couple of years.
I started off studying Embroidered Textiles and what really drew me more into
technology initially was the fact that I hated drawing. I wasn’t very good at it
and I was in a class of really, really good drawers. Any way I could find a way of
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