Molly Morin
is an artist, researcher and educator who thinks about digital technology through craft processes and materials. She develops ways to make things with analog materials using digital and mechanical tools. Her artwork, workshops and events engage critically with technologies in ways that connect with non-expert audiences and use play and delight.
Classes and Events
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Queer Arts Festival
August 26, 10a – 5p | Plainfield, VT.
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Space Camp
Digital Fabrication: July 10-14 | Robotics and Microcomputers: July 24-28
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Wet Felted Tote Class
April 29, 10a-4p | Craft Studies | White River Junction, Vermont
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Creative Mending With Felt
February 15 | Craft Studies | White River Junction, Vermont
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The Butterfly Factory at the Space On Main
Show: January 15 – April 1 | Reception: January 25, 2:00 – 5:00 | The Space on Main | Bradford, VT
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Programming to Pen Workshop
February 2 | for Modern Media Theory class | Dartmouth College
Current Research
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KnitLab
KnitLab is using All Yarns Are Beautiful resources to make a programmable knitting machine from a vintage electronic machine.
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The Butterfly Factory
The Butterfly Factory is a traveling exhibition and workshop that uses parametric design to create one-of-a-kind wing forms, generating a new series of unique prints for each location to which it migrates.
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Scavenger Fibers
Scavenger Fibers is a research and production project that reclaims yarn from second-hand sweaters to knit housewares on a vintage knitting machine. I am developing methods for efficiently unwinding sweaters and cleaning yarn, designing knitting machine textures, and creating useful things that replace disposable paper products.
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Artwork
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1055113200 | 2023 with Nikki Stevens
1055113200 is a Unix timestamp. Unix timestamps (popularized on the computing system Unix) are the number of seconds after 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. Our timestamp, 1055113200, represents Sun Jun 08 2003 23:00:00 GMT, the approximate founding of HASTAC. To commemorate HASTAC’s 20th anniversary, two DHSE researchers created a data infusion to celebrate all…
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Best Laid Plans: A Repair Sampler | 2021
Best Laid Plans: A repair sampler was made during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each panel starts with a computer-drafted design for a mylar panel, and a knitting patern for a small knit inset. The knitting and mylar elements are designed carefully on paper to integrate with each-other. However, the tension between the two materials creates torque,…
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Information Density | 2018
Information Density and Strong Correlations draw upon my experience as a competitive weightlifter and coach. It presents weightlifting movements, equipment, and competition results through felt sculpture, data visualization, performative drawing, and digital fabrication. While maintaining fuzzy borders between information, mark-making, visualization and metaphor, this project addresses the sport of weightlifting as a practice in which…
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