Digital Text(ile)

Kathryn Jones

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Kathryn is a conceptual artist whose practice includes the translation of scientific, mathematical, and philosophical knowledge into textile and illustrated forms. She is interested in how visual communication can act as a catalyst for new conversations about deep questions, with tones of curiosity and conviviality.

Kathryn is a conceptual artist whose practice includes the translation of scientific, mathematica...

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This project began as an investigation into encoding and decoding and the unlocking of ancient messages. Initial experiments included the encryption of the Baconian motto, ‘Knowledge is Power’ in letterpress and needlecraft, in Rosetta Stone-inspired triplets of ciphers and codes. I explored the use of crochet to send a digital message, where each square ‘pixel’ is binary: either it is filled, or it is a gap, viz., it is either a 1 or a 0. Stitching these concepts together in a textile translation of a biblical text, I invite a reader to decrypt the text(ile) using a key to unlock the message.