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KarinaThompson_60BeatsAMinute_PhotoAndyKruczek on Flickr.
If you can't get to see Karina's work at the exhibition here is an image (via the Made in the Middle flickr group).
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KarinaThompson_60BeatsAMinute_PhotoAndyKruczek on Flickr.
If you can't get to see Karina's work at the exhibition here is an image (via the Made in the Middle flickr group).
Karina Thompson has written about her work in Made in the Middle:
60 Beats: How and why? If I live to 70, my heart will beat approximately 2.6 billion times. ‘60 beats a minute’ examines one on those heart beats. It features six images of that heart beat; there wasn’t anything special about that heart beat; it was just the one that got caught. It got caught at 8 seconds into 21 minutes past 6 on the evening of the 17th of October 2011 when I had an echocardiogram. An echo as it is often called is an ultrasound test of the heart. Most people are more familiar with this technology in the form of ‘baby scans’. I don’t have anything wrong with my heart; at least nothing unusual for a 46 year old. The reason for the scan was to get the images for a body of work. The scan done by my partner; that’s what she does; it’s her job. She spends her working days looking into people’s hearts. The run of six images is a four chamber view of my heart. It’s a standard view in an echo. You can see the valves opening and then closing. You also need to know that with this view, the heart appears upside down. The piece is basically a playful exercise on those six images. It’s an examination of that essential muscle reflex that happens over and over again.
Here's a brief overview of the Accidental Pathways seminar afternoon we held at mac birmingham by DMWM (Click on the title to read this on the DMWM website)...
On Wednesday 14 March 2012 DMWM, Craftspace and mac birmingham ran a collaborative seminar event for craft sector professionals to explore the impact craft has on other sectors and the potential opportunities for working with industry.
The event included fascinating talks from a variety of different sector professionals including:
Sarita Wilkinson from Nokia Design who talked about Nokia's long-standing history of enabling makers through open briefs and collaborations with a focus on a recent project involving Made in the Middle exhibitor, Esther Lord.
Textile Artist Karina Thompson and Mike Harris Managing Director, Northern Europe, Pfaff Sewing Machines, ‘In conversation’ discussed Pfaff Sewing Machines sponsorship of the arts and support for makers, with a focus on the six year association with Karina.
Paul Laikin, Director at Unanico gave an overview of the company's recent collaboration with Made in the Middle exhibitor AndrewTanner to create the English Hedgerow ceramic design and associated smartphone application.
Glass Artist Vanessa Cutler, talked about her experience and knowledge within the field of architectural glass and waterjet cutting and how this area of her practice has developed.
In addition please click here to download an 'In conversation' article between Silversmith Esther Lord and independent curator Kate Stoddart. Following Esther's recent collaboration with Nokia to explore forms and surfaces in metal, Kate and Esther discuss the impact of the project on her personal practice.
The seminar event was is in connection with Made in the Middle Contemporary craft from across the Midlands