Role
Artist
Year
2016
Insecurity Blanket
An art piece incorporating the body, poetry, crochet, and “cocoons” created using Processing and OpenCV technology.
Overview
“Insecurity Blanket” is a performative piece and collection of sculptural pieces. This piece incorporates the body, poetry, crochet, and “cocoons” created using Processing and OpenCV technology.
Process
Inspired by early data storage methods using punchcards, as well as barcodes and QR codes, I used crochet as a means of data encryption while I used computer vision as a means of decryption. In the performance, I used black and white yarn to represent 1 and 0 bits to encode messages into my blanket. I crocheted each blanket while I was inside it, creating a snug cocoon around myself. At the same time, a computer vision Insecurity Blanket reader decoded my messages and presented them visually to the audience. I created barriers that were comfortable yet uncomfortable, expressive yet mysterious, and intimate yet isolated. With Insecurity Blanket, I explored poetry with cryptography and encryption and methodology in artmaking and crocheting. Aspects of performance art, process art, and materiality were influenced by artists Janine Antoni, Marina Abramović, and Ann Hamilton.
Performance and artifacts
Read further documentation and view the prototypes.