Akiko Takahashi
I am originally from the computer science field. I learned sewing, knitting and other craft skills from my seamstress grandmother. I have been especially sewing and knitting for 25 years in my life with some years of blank when I was working in a company. After I took maternity leave, I am now working in the textile and related craft field such as beading as an artist.
Q&A
Artist Statement
What craft do you work with?
What inspires you to work with this craft?
Are there new techniques you would like to try?
I wrote a program that learns lace knitting patterns and builds a Markov model. In the output patterns, there are co-existing randomness and order, which is not easy for us humans to produce.
For example, I am working on a project to make a computer program learn the existing knitting language (“k, k, p, p, …”) and produce a new knitting pattern. The project and my stay at University of Art and Design Linz Austria is supported by Culture Moves Europe program.
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Location
Germany