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Related Strands
DiFi : Digital and Fiber
is an article by Wendy Angel that considers the information value of fiber and relates it to digital art; published in Switch 2001. [Text Version]
The Aleph-Bet Project
was at the Jewish Library 2000.
The letter images at the top of this page are from the Aleph-Bet series.

The request for art for this show is admirably broad and implicates wide consideration of content and media. Thank you Elayne.

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----------------- "What Joseph Wore" ---------------- -------------------------- ------------------------ --------- -------------------- ------------ ------------------------ ----------------- ----------------------- ------------- ------------------ ---------------------- ----------------- ------------
---------Date : February 23, 2003 through June 1, 2003-------------------- -------------------------- ------------------------ ----------------------------- ------------ --------------- --------------- ------------------- ---------- ---------------- ---------------- ------------ ------- ------------------------------- -------------------------
-- ------- Location: - the Jewish Community Library of the Bureau of Jewish Education ------ 601 14th Avenue, San Francisco, California ------------------------------------------------------ --------- ----------------------- ------------------------ ---------- Reception: March 16, 2:00 - 4:00 PM -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------------------ ----------------------------- ------------ --------------- ------------ --------- ------------

               

Hypertext by Wendy Angel

                

------------------- ------------------------- ----------------- --- -------- ----------- ----------- ------------------- ----------------- -------------------------- ------------ ------------ ----------------------------- ------------ ------------------------- A point of entry leads to a journey ------ a net, web, tapestry, fabric of content ------traditions of nonlinear, tangential, interpretative study . ------------ -------------As for woven garments, --- there is nothing like a good skill to enhance the likelihood of survival ------- do the best textiles, glass, masonry, engineering, interpret dreams, run systems.................. and people will be interested in keeping you around ----------- ------------ --------------- ---------- --------------------- ------------------------- ----------------- ------------

 

Excerpts from the curator, Elayne Grossbard, to the artists:

This year's subject, What Joseph Wore, is inspired by the Bureau of Jewish Education's 2003 Feast of Jewish Learning: Common Threads: the Fabric of Jewish life.

Joseph is a fascinating and complex biblical figure. His character, behavior, even -- or especially! -- his appearance and clothing, have been interpreted in a multitude of ways from ancient times to the present. And nearly every important moment of his life is marked by what he wore. For this exhibition we would like to begin at the beginning, with the garment which his father gave him as a mark of his special love: his ketonet passim. (These words for his special coat, have been translated and mistranslated in so many ways that I've given only the Hebrew here. Please contact Elayne Grossbard if you would like some reading suggestions.)

Artists in the past have tried to picture the garment, painting or drawing what they thought it looked like. We encourage you to think about this subject as broadly as possible: you might construct, weave or embroider a piece of clothing; create a visual image of the ideas expressed by what Joseph wore and the part it played in his life; or combine text with other media to illustrate your own understanding of this mysterious garment.