Aoife Mooney

Thank you, Aoife, for bringing about some wonderful conversations regarding graphics, typography, & weaving and their intersections (and also for bringing this flag tape; it makes an awesome weft!!)

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from:  Akron, Ohio (originally Dublin, Ireland)

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?
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I'm an Associate Professor at Kent State University's School of Visual Communication Design, and an interdisciplinary designer/artist. I'm interested in edges, thresholds and boundaries. In particular, in the edges of digital and material, language and landscape, meaning and ambiguity. My work explores the ways that memory operates on our experiences, weaving them into a fragmented inner landscape through which we make sense of ourselves and our relationships to others and the environment.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

Yes, at Kent State, where I learned first on the TC1 and then TC2.

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

A series of weavings inspired by a Roland Barthes quote “Reading does not consist in stopping the chain of systems, in establishing a truth… it consists in coupling these systems, not according to their finite quantity but according to their plurality…: I pass, I intersect, I articulate, I release, I do not count.”
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See more of Aoife on Instagram @patterns_and_puzzles  or at www.kent.edu/vcd/aoife-mooney