corecodes weaving workshop

Samiha Meem

create customized carriers coded with the cores presented in corecodes

Main Space @ Knowlton Hall

corecodes is a presentation of texts, patterns, and woven drawings on gender, optimization, and microaesthetics from LeFevre Fellow Samiha Meem, on view in the Main Space at Knowlton Hall from April 8 to April 11. corecodes visualizes a series of girlrooms shaped by distinct aesthetic economies across domains of play, work, home, and pleasure: Sportpop Acceleration, Siren Economy, Tradwife Desolation, and Babygirl Degrowth. These categories emerge from an expansive index of aesthetic “cores,” circulating through online image discovery platforms, which encode implicit directives to continuously optimize body, space, and image in sync with intensified market temporalities. They prescribe not only how to live or live better but how to perform living better. corecodes works against the legibility of these cores and codes to unsettle the representational frameworks that curate, construct, and manage these instructions for optimized spatial production and performance. It uses a deep learning-based vision-language model and textual drafting system to extract semantic descriptions from images, expand their interpretative frames, and recode them as adaptive patterns for making woven drawings. It’s more deconstruction than simulation. It will be accompanied by a brief talk from LeFevre Fellow Samiha Meem and a weaving workshop led by UG4 student Sydney Stuermer by the Big Steps on April 9 from 12–2 PM.  The workshop invites participants to interface with and inscribe the recoded microaesthetic patterns into customized carrier bags—yours to keep! These carriers function as both material archives and mutable sites of translation, where intuition, misalignment, and adaptation open space to test what holds, what shifts, and what resists containment. More than a technical exercise, it’s a low-pressure space to make, talk, and rethink how body, space, and image move through, resist, or undo the forces that drive optimization. Refreshments will be provided. Registration is required for active workshop participation due to limited kits.

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