Code, Art, and Embroidery
Recreating Clive Richards’ 100 Cubes (1973)

Talk

Presented by:

Margaret Low

from University of Warwick
<p>I'm Director of Outreach and Widening Participation for WMG at the University of Warwick, UK. I work with young people to encourage them to become creators as well as consumers of technology. My interactive workshops explore creative aspects of technology. I collaborate with local, national and international organisations and communities to explore inclusive, creative learning experiences. In 2008, I set up the student-led, Technology Volunteers project at Warwick, enabling students to pre...

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In 1973 Clive Richards created his 100 cubes art work using a line plotter. It consists of a 10 × 10 grid of cubes, each rotated 10 degrees along either the x or y axis, creating a fascinating effect through the repeated rotations.

Realising the similarities between a line plotter and embroidery machine, I set out to recreate Clive Richards, 1973 100 cubes art work using TurtleStitch, to explore how the stitched version compared to the original.

In this presentation I'll share how I re-created Clive's work using an embroidery machine to translate it into thread and fabric. By translating this concept into thread and fabric, the embroidery machine becomes a modern day plotter.

Clive Richard's work is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1327456/100-cubes-plotter-drawing-richards-clive/

Date:
2025 September 1 - 15:00 CEST
Duration:
15 min
Room:
SAP Immersive Experience Studio
Conference:
Snap!Con 2025
Type:
Talk
Presented via:
In person
Difficulty:
Medium