Sunday...

Nice Sundays everyone. I haven't been updating my blog as often as I would like. I have quite a few things on my plate at the moment. All good things. I started a work placement in a beautiful knitting studio and shop called MakePiece:

http://www.makepiece.com/

I am learning new techniques with a designer and trying to learn and experience how it is for them to run this small business.

Makepiece is a label with ethics. They have their own sheep, they use domestic knitting machines (that doesn't use electric, same as me).

Tonight MakePiece will be on BBC 1 on countryfile. I am excited to watch that!

Another thing that I will start tomorrow is a workshop artist training scheme at the Chinese Arts Centre.

http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/

The current exhibition there is "The Human Error" that is about the interaction between humans and machines.

"HUMAN ERROR Trailer from Household on Vimeo.

For the exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre, Household have created works that explore the relationship between machines and their users. The smooth operation of our daily lives relies heavily on the assistance of various machines. Technology makes our life easy but frustrates us when it lets us down. The exhibition highlights our reliance on machines to complete daily tasks and emphasises the potential for human error.

The artists have a specific interest in the use of machines in mass production; photocopiers, printers and scanners, which all work to speed up and streamline our work. We easily forget how we managed without these machines before we invented them. Household will produce large scale interactive sculptures, which invite visitors to cooperate in order to make them work. The machines will overcomplicate simple tasks and require a minimum of two or more visitors to run them, encouraging human error. Visitors are encouraged to bring friends or collaborate with other people in order to complete the tasks. The collaboration necessary to operate the machines follows the ethos of Household projects.

The show will open with a week of demonstrations led by the artists. For the duration of the show, video instruction, manuals and diagrams will be left as instructions for visitors to carry out the tasks themselves. The "machines" designed by Household will be suitable for users of all ages.

To guarantee you place on the workshops, please place a booking via Eventbrite using the links below:

Human Error Machines Demonstration with Household artists
Saturday, 19 February 2011
2PM http://human-error-demonstration1.eventbrite.com"

The introduction is from the website:http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/ from the part "What's on?"

Bye for now, I will get better with this updating, that is a promise to myself!

HUMAN ERROR Trailer from Household on Vimeo.