ENTANGLED THREADS
Part of the opt:exp Research Framework
Entangled Threads is an artistic research project exploring interaction as a communicative system between embodied textile practices and computational processes.
The work investigates how slow, material-based processes such as embroidery and repetition operate within and against accelerated digital environments. These temporal conditions are not treated as opposites, but as interacting systems in which embodied gestures and computational feedback continuously affect one another.
Material actions are translated into visual, sonic, and computational responses through sensor-based structures, forming a feedback environment where meaning emerges through dynamic interaction between embodied labour and digital processes.
By situating textile practice within contemporary technological contexts, the project develops communicative environments in which different temporalities of making co-produce shifting conditions of perception and meaning.
1. Folding Field (2025)
Folding Field is a wearable system developed in collaboration with scientists and physicists during the FUNKEN × MAIN Residency at TU Chemnitz.
Electromagnetic field data was recorded in laboratory environments and translated into sound structures. This material drives audio-reactive light embedded in a wearable textile system.
The structure is built through folding principles inspired by origami geometries and nano-scale membrane systems. Layered translucent materials translate these structural logics into a tactile textile environment.
Movement, signal, and light interact in real time, forming a responsive audiovisual system within installation and live contexts.
2. The Golden Signal / EXT
The Golden Signal investigates Zlatovez embroidery as an open system of gesture, memory, and material translation.
Embroidery is treated as a dynamic process in which partial techniques and residual knowledge generate audiovisual behaviour through sensor-based interaction. Gesture, repetition, and latency become active components of perception.
The Golden Signal EXT extends this research into environmental conditions, where textile systems respond to spatial, electromagnetic, and contextual fields.
The work explores distributed perception across body, material, and environment, where interaction emerges through overlapping signal structures and multi-layered feedback.
// Entangled Threads system studies:
Signal Drift (live activation)
Signal Drift is the performative and collaborative activation of The Golden Signal system.
The work integrates performers, musicians, and responsive textile environments into shared audiovisual configurations. Through live interaction, projection, and generative systems, perception emerges through relational dynamics between body, material, and environment.