An automated tool as an artwork🪡🧵
This embroidery machine—not far in nature from those that already exist in mass manufacturing warehouses—is here presented as an artwork, redirecting the artist’s questions from “results” to “processes”, from “means of production” to “reason”, emphasizing the artists’ ideas and intentions in the use of open-source technologies by artists. All components, software, and systems in this project originate from other existing open-source projects, therefore this artwork is not a product of the sole creativity of the artist, but an example of collective construction. The CNC Punch Needle Machine dreams of collective evolution over individual enlightenment. The CNC Punch Needle Machine MK-1 “punches” a small length of thread into a stretched canvas, and, dot by dot, it “prints” out texts or images.
Hess Jeon 