Please note this site was archived as published in 2001

I am an artist who is interested in the connections between textiles and digital technology. The internet is a cultural artefact which is profoundly changing cultural concepts about space, and community. I am interested not in what digital technology can do, but how we use the technology and how in employing technology it can influence our ideas.

The 'Shareware Project' aims to explore the tension between the original 'real' artefact and the simulated digital image. In the process it also explores aspects of the textile community on the internet.
Judy Ritter
Anne McMahon
Nancy Schlegel
Susan Lee
Lindsay Viljoen Paula McCormick
Annabel Blakey P Price
Elizabeth Darvel
Sandra Bingham
Hessa Althana
Click on the images to navigate the site. As you move through the site you will find different 'hot spots' that move you forward or backward. 

In the past explorers used beads as a means of exchange in order to open new trading routes just as the development of the silicon chip has opened up a means of exchange in the "information" age. A section of this site provides a collection of embroidery stitches. I requested that people who use this resource send me a piece of fabric, or a button, or some lace or ribbon. I also asked that if items have a story associated with them to please tell me. I have used these objects in a work to provoke ideas about the slippery exchange between the virtual and the real.

 
Debbie Hallborg
Beverley Olsness
Diane Foote
debbie Markowitz
Cheryl Warner
Martina Elder
Dottie Daybell
Kate Holliefield
Nancy Gill
Joan Brick
Samantha Long Susan Bescher Mary Carpelan Kaye Russell
The "Shareware Project" is in two sections. This project was exhibited in March 2000 at the Canberra School of Art Gallery Institute of the Arts, Australia National University Canberra ACT. This exhibition consisted of a 10 metre long panel which incorporated the materials that were sent to me. Photographs of the panel and some close up details are available from this site by clicking here to view. A version of this work is currently touring as part of Frisson: 14th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial. I have the tour and dates listed. You can check these by clicking here. Nan Hansen
J Line
J D Narayan
Elisabet Truesdell
Pam Rolly
Louise from Canada Burnadette Finglas Teresa Storesund staff of Handmade magazine
Pat Frank
Lois Ives
The other section of the project is this online exhibition. The images on this website consist of images which are created from the materials sent to me. I have scanned the materials and using Photoshop, Painter, and Illustrator have combined the imagery to create 'postcards'. I have responded to each person by creating a series of images which tell their story and my journey.

Click on the images to navigate the site. As you move through the site you will find different 'hot spots' that move you forward or backward.

Please note this site was archived as published in 2001
Carole Stumpf
 
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