Epoch: A 'Move Slow & Make Things' Approach to Coding

Epoch explores the relationships between traditional and newly-emerging methods of making. Beginning with a dataset of 5000 punch card designs, creative technologist Sophie Nadel uses a GAN system to generate typographic knitting patterns. The resulting typeface can then be knitted by hand or machine, completing the cycle between the computer-generated and the material. Through the lenses of textiles and typography, Epoch presents a model for how artists can utilise emerging technologies, without large AI models, to deeply connect with their tools as a knitter might pick out yarn for a project.

Author: Sophie Nadel
Published by: AYFP
Editor and Designer: Emma Crabtree
Photography: Izi Thexton
Language: English

130 x 210 mm, 94-pages, spiral-bound, risograph printed in black & blue on 175gsm, 300gsm Context Natural