one of the things that interests me about knitting machines (+ knit in general) is the intimacy that people develop with them... loads of knitters I know use (and have a very close relationship to) domestic knit machines, which sit somewhere between automated knit and hand knit.
my interest in working with my students to make knit software is not 'less intimiate knit' so much as 'more intimate code' + changing our relationships to the machines we use. loads of stuff is already made through automated knit (like -- your socks!) but the software those machines run is super rigid.
I understand hand knitting as craft (that can also or exclusively be art).
I also understand some programming as craft (that can also or exclusively be art).
But when you combine the two and add some kind of machinery it is much harder for me to see it as craft and not as production. This has me thinking, I like to think!
The work you do expands my understanding of the world, thanks!
one of the things that interests me about knitting machines (+ knit in general) is the intimacy that people develop with them... loads of knitters I know use (and have a very close relationship to) domestic knit machines, which sit somewhere between automated knit and hand knit.
my interest in working with my students to make knit software is not 'less intimiate knit' so much as 'more intimate code' + changing our relationships to the machines we use. loads of stuff is already made through automated knit (like -- your socks!) but the software those machines run is super rigid.
anyway I'm glad it's of interest!