Berit Greinke

Conductive Material Project Part 1, 2007

A collection of textiles with embedded conductive materials. The project is an exploration of the aesthetic and poetic potential of handcrafted wiring.

The line drawings are inspired by wires, paper clips and circuit symbols.
I draw familiar and invented symbols.

I researched about conductive materials like metals, carbon and conductive polymers in terms of textile applications. In the sampling process I experimented with the combination of screenprint, heatpress, stitching, wiring and drawing. Primarily I used thin japanese papers and bondaweb as basic materials and combined them with plastic tubing and coated and uncoated wires.

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