diff --git a/docs/assignments/week01.md b/docs/assignments/week01.md index 0d19f25b962dd6af4dae69132365e2bab2d1085a..109cb44f7bcbd7158d7833ef0e6d295f8c167055 100644 --- a/docs/assignments/week01.md +++ b/docs/assignments/week01.md @@ -3,9 +3,27 @@ ## Research & Ideation -{ width=400 align=right } +{ width=400 } + +For two years I have been looking for information on the story of my Polish grandfather Kazimierz Gaca, a cryptologist, he deciphered the messages sent by the Nazis during the Second World War thanks to the reproduction they made with a group of resistance fighters Polish, French, Spanish and English from the Enigma typewriter. They worked in parallel with Alan Turing's team in London. Their work is credited with inspiring what became the first computers. The history of most of these Poles has however been hidden and most of them died during this War. + +The climate of wars in which we find ourselves today, between the occupation of Palestine and Ukraine, also led me to want to forge links with different places and stories of resistance. + +In my plastic and performative work, I wanted to create an alphabet, which I hid in my fabrics woven on the Jacquard loom, also considered one of the ancestors of the computer and binary code. The alphabet is presented in the form of symbols which are thus transcribed into patterns, on the outer bands of the fabric. + +How to give back a voice to our ancestors and draw inspiration from them to create our own form of resistance today. + +I represent here a Norn, who is one of three witches, from Norse mythology, who weave fate. They were the weavers of peace. +Webs of Power comes from Starawk's book + +The title of my project is "Webs of power: Weave Resistance", which comes from Starhawk's 1999 ecofeminist book, Webs of power: note from the Global Uprising. + +(../images/week01/9780865714564-uk.jpg){ width=400 align=left } +(../images/week01/the_norns_by_froweminahild.jpg){ width=400 align=right } +(../images/week01/Capture d’eÌcran 2022-09-27 aÌ€ 16.03.00.png){ width=400 align=left } +(../images/week01/Capture d’eÌcran 2022-09-27 aÌ€ 16.03.20.png){ width=400 align=right } + -"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." ??? task "weekly assignment" @@ -39,7 +57,7 @@ ## References & Inspiration - Zeros and ones book from Saddie Plant -- Enigma book +- Enigma book book from Hugh Sebag-Montefiore * Two images side-by-side diff --git a/docs/images/week01/11168021.jpg b/docs/images/week01/11168021.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5215bf45c9d88975628a757d0099f68a06cb2538 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/images/week01/11168021.jpg differ diff --git a/docs/images/week01/9780865714564-uk.jpg b/docs/images/week01/9780865714564-uk.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d0857f677c6ee315fdaa7b0dafecde2c5bb0efc Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/images/week01/9780865714564-uk.jpg differ diff --git "a/docs/images/week01/Capture d\342\200\231e\314\201cran 2022-09-27 a\314\200 16.03.00.png" "b/docs/images/week01/Capture d\342\200\231e\314\201cran 2022-09-27 a\314\200 16.03.00.png" new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82c116093448ea067282498ad42b99eb4a7d1796 Binary files /dev/null and "b/docs/images/week01/Capture d\342\200\231e\314\201cran 2022-09-27 a\314\200 16.03.00.png" differ diff --git "a/docs/images/week01/Capture d\342\200\231e\314\201cran 2022-09-27 a\314\200 16.03.20.png" "b/docs/images/week01/Capture d\342\200\231e\314\201cran 2022-09-27 a\314\200 16.03.20.png" new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12ff8f34dc1a67629766baa2e954110a3e38ac5a Binary files /dev/null and "b/docs/images/week01/Capture d\342\200\231e\314\201cran 2022-09-27 a\314\200 16.03.20.png" differ diff --git a/docs/images/week01/the_norns_by_froweminahild.jpg b/docs/images/week01/the_norns_by_froweminahild.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f0b96a18b9f08717271a475c69e861942a85180 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/images/week01/the_norns_by_froweminahild.jpg differ