row ⨉ row / Sheryl Teng (SG), Vina Setiawaty (ID), Yu Yan Goh (SG), Clement Zheng (SG)/Photo: vog.photo

row ⨉ row

Sheryl Teng (SG), Vina Setiawaty (ID), Yu Yan Goh (SG), Clement Zheng (SG)

We are surrounded by technical devices with hidden inner workings having the ability to produce various types of content — text, imagery, audio, even synthetic data. What distinguishes maker and machine? row ⨉ row explores the relationship between us and fabrication processes in the post-industrialization age through knitting.

Exposing the functions within manual, punchcard knitting, inputs are „crowdsourced” from the viewers. The knitter, while executing the command, becomes part of the machine.