Thread Ripper

An artist in her thirties weaves and unravels connections between the loom and the computer, DNA and technology, dreams and decisions Thread Ripper is a multi-strand novel about weaving, women, and programming. In Copenhagen, a tapestry-weaver embarks on her first big commission, a digitally woven tapestry. As she works, she draws illuminating connections between all the stuff that life is made from - DNA, plant tissue, algorithms, text and textile - and that which disrupts it - radiation, pests, entropy and doubt. In another strand, we follow Ada Lovelace, the 1830s mathematician and pioneer of computer programming. And Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, who wove and unpicked a shroud to put off her 108 suitors. Contemplative yet clear-sighted, Amalie Smith's hybrid textile of a novel bares the aching but crucial interwovenness of art and life.

An artist in her thirties weaves and unravels connections between the loom and the computer, DNA and technology, dreams and decisions Thread Ripper is a multi-strand novel about weaving, women, and programming. In Copenhagen, a tapestry-weaver embarks on her first big commission, a digitally woven tapestry. As she works, she draws illuminating connections between all the stuff that life is made from - DNA, plant tissue, algorithms, text and textile - and that which disrupts it - radiation, pests, entropy and doubt. In another strand, we follow Ada Lovelace, the 1830s mathematician and pioneer of computer programming. And Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, who wove and unpicked a shroud to put off her 108 suitors. Contemplative yet clear-sighted, Amalie Smith's hybrid textile of a novel bares the aching but crucial interwovenness of art and life.

"Thread Ripper" er et hybridværk af forfatteren og billedkunstneren Amalie Smith, som med udgangspunkt i vævning forsøger at forstå det digitales væsen. Handlingen i "Thread Ripper" følger en billedvæver, som i slutningen af 2010'erne er i gang med at skabe et digitalvævet billedtæppe. Men hun væver også sin tilværelse, sin kærlighed, relation til omverdenen og sin tvivl om hvorvidt hun skal blive mor. "Thread Ripper" er en tankevækkende fortælling om vores forhold til virkeligheden, kroppen, vores inderste, kærligheden og det digitales uhåndgribelige forgrening ind i vores liv.