How To Make a Digital Quilt

The Whitney and Tate Museums have collaborated to fund a sort of confusing but interactive internet based project called Screening Circle. The installation is somewhat akin to a quilting circle made up of live, anonymous contributers drawing pixelated "squares" to be bound into a video quilt.

Enter the portal and you'll be able to "help docs" (which means you can pick an existing "quilt square" and add to it). Using a palette of 9 basic screen colors, draw with your mouse and make your mark on the Screening Circle. Like I said, it's a little confusing at first, but you'll figure it out.

Screening Circle was inspired by the tradition of the quilting circle: a group of people who make a quilt together, each producing small squares that are later sewn together. Screening Circle reinterprets this popular craft tradition in the context of interactive electronic media. As you draw in this circle you may notice icons changing, because other people are drawing at the same time.

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View the interactive "quilt" or participate here.

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