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University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, started as a quest for an alternative
medium to envisage live data streams. They realized that text and imagery designs on
clothes were quite common. They asked themselves, 'How can ephemeral informa-
tion, which is generated, absorbed and evaluated by real people on a daily basis, be
materialized, attached back to the physical body and enter urban daily life?'
Diagram showing the process of the News Knitter project. This details gathering the data, ana-
lyzing and generating the patterns from it, and finally sending that information to the knitting ma-
chine to produce the garments.
The key idea was to translate digital data into the physical world. Since all digital in-
formation is in the form of binary code consisting of just 1s and 0s, the information
can be readily converted into an analogue format via a piece of software.
The project uses the form of knitted garments, in this case sweaters, as an alternate
way to present and visualize large amounts of data. Through the means of knitting,
