Join mid-career textile artist and UMass Boston professor Cat Mazza for a tour of her solo show, "Network," which is on view through April 12 at Northeastern University's Gallery 360.

"Network" showcases how Mazza's practice has shuttled between the analogue and the digital, using craft and digital media to probe urgent issues from globalization to the understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.

Mazza, alongside programmer Eric St Onge, is known for creating the early freeware application knitPro (2004), which translates digital images into stitchable patterns online. Allowing for both individual idiosyncrasy and collective action, knitPro has supported a series of “micro-revolts” against sweatshop labor, and, most recently, a Covid-responsive participatory project installed at Northeastern. Other works on view employ knitPro’s moving image offshoot, Knitoscope, to translate digital video into knitted animations.

Location:
Gallery 360
1st Floor of Curry Student Center near Ell Hall
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

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