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Knitoscope Testimonies is the first web based video using “Knitoscope” software, a program that translates digital video into a knitted animation. Knitoscope is a moving image offshoot of microRevolt’s freeware knitPro. Knitoscope imports streaming video, lowers the resolution, and then generates a stitch that correspondes with the pixels color. The title “Knitoscope” is based on Edison’s early animation technology the kinetoscope, which was a “coin operated peep show machine…watched through a magnifying lens”. The “Testimonies” in this piece are from various professionals who work against sweatshop labor.
- via Rhizome
Critics generally don’t associate Black people with ideas. They see marginal people; they see just another story about Black folks. They regard the whole thing as sociologically interesting perhaps, but very parochial. There’s a notion out in the land that there are human beings one writes about, and then there are Black people or Indians or some other marginal group. If you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser. We are people, not aliens. We live, we love, and we die.Toni Morrison (via blackcontemporaryart)
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