Marian Sandberg, System Sampler, 2022<br /> Cotton thread, conductive thread, press studs, microcontroller and polyphonic audio<br /> 43cm x 35cm<br /> Image courtesy of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Photo: Dan McCabe
Marian Sandberg, System Sampler, 2022<br /> Cotton thread, conductive thread, press studs, microcontroller and polyphonic audio<br /> 43cm x 35cm Marian Sandberg, System Sampler (detail), 2022<br /> Cotton thread, conductive thread, press studs, microcontroller and polyphonic audio<br /> 43cm x 35cm<br /> Photograph: James Field Marian Sandberg, System Sampler (detail), 2022<br /> Cotton thread, conductive thread, press studs, microcontroller and polyphonic audio<br /> 43cm x 35cm<br /> Photograph: James Field

System Sampler

System Sampler

2022
Cotton thread, conductive thread, press studs, microcontroller and polyphonic audio
43cm x 35cm

The tradition of sampling provides fertile ground for rewriting systems. Here I'm reconfiguring readymades by sampling needlework, code and sound.

The central text is an End User License agreement, laboriously copy-pasted in stitch to comply with the developers' request for acknowledgement. 

Each button is stitched in conductive thread, and once touched elicits an off-key boop of my own voice impersonating a pedestrian crossing.