Anuradha Reddy
(dr. - she/her)
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I am an independent design researcher with a critical making practice via craftivisms, hardware hacks and re-appropriations of data-driven technologies.
Open Hardware Project: Moon-phases + Period tracking Calendar
Research Article: Artificial Everyday Creativity
Project: Ferozkoh Jaali in P5js - code + rhythm
Open Hardware Talk: Knotty Hardware
Research Workshop: Venetian Drawing Conversations
Research Pictorial: Drawing Conversations Mediated by AI
Research Pictorial: Exploring Kolam As An Ecofeminist Computational Art Practice
Open Hardware Project: BOOB-Factor Authentication in Banjara Embroidery
Open Hardware Project: Internet of Towels - Knotty Articulations
Open Hardware Project: Secure Your Home IoT with the CryptoCrochet-Key
Open Hardware Project: Make Your Own Resistor Cushion
Research Article: Making Everyday Things Talk
Research Workshop: More-Than-Human Design & AI
PhD Dissertation: Researching IoT Through Design
Research Workshop: Encountering Ethics In Data-Enabled IoT
Research Article: The Role of Participation in Designing For IoT
Book chapter: Feeling At Home with the Internet of Things
Research Article: Platform Ethics in Technology
Research Article: Where is the Interface?
Research Project: Thing (Data) Perspectives
Research Project: Ethnography of Open Street Mapping
Research Project: Living with a Smart Plug
Research Workshop: Subverting IoT Futures
Internet of Towels ๐งถ - Knotty Articulations
I created the Internet of Towels as part of my exploration into data technologies using only fiber arts and crafts (see, for example, my CryptoCrochet-Key project). In plain view, the towel looks just like any other knitted fabric with an abstract pattern on it, but when tilted to 45 degrees (see bottom image), it reveals a QR code that is detectable to any smartphone camera or QR code scanning app.
The process behind it is the application of computational thinking to making and crafting. My aim was to devise something new and valuable through the creativity emerging from remixing materials, patterns, and abstractions with ideas, objects, and systems (Gaskins, 2021). This project combines two patterns or techniques namely lenticular images and QR codes, resulting in an absurdly new kind of computational object โ the Internet of Towels.
Here is the link to a tutorial for making the Internet of Towels.
