open source embroidery

Exhibition currently in London at http gallery - read about it here

"This exhibition explores the connections between the collaborative characteristics of needlework, craft and Open Sourcei software. This project has brought together embroiderers, patch-workers, knitters, artists and computer programmers, to share their practice and make new work."

There's a wiki project for the HTML patchwork piece as well as the quilt itself (in case anyone was thinking that a piece of textile art isn't really "digitali art", no matter what its subject).

This also links to the current discussions on the CRUMB mailing list around whether the open source software development model can be transferred as an ethos for artistic projects. The discussion can be found in the crumb list archive here