Emma Cocker is a writer-artist whose research focuses on artistic processes and practices, and the performing of thinking-in-action therein. Cocker’s language-based artistic research comprises a matrix of writing, reading and conversation practices, including diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. She was a key-researcher within the project Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2014 – 2017) for exploring the thinking-feeling-knowing between choreography, drawing and writing. Cocker’s writing has been published in Failure, 2010; Stillness in a Mobile World, 2010; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, 2011; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018; Live Coding: A User's Manual, 2023, and in the solo collections, The Yes of the No, 2016, and How Do You Do?, 2024. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. She is Associate Professor in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University.

Residency: Weaving Codes/Coding Weaves (Textile Matrix)



Between 7 – 10 May I will be working in residency (along with Alex McLean, Dave Griffiths and Ellen Harlizius-Klück) in the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich, as part of the project Weaving Codes/Coding Weaves.

Our residency is in conjunction with Ellen’s ‘Textile Matrix’ exhibition at the Museum, a crossbreeding of logical science, religion, crafts and visual arts. The word ‘matrix’ originates from the Latin word for mother or uterus, but today is predominantly used in mathematics, science and technology. Ellen's work, as much of the weaving codes project, provides new perspectives on connections between modern digital technology and ancient weaving.

On the 9th May there will be talks and slub will be performing a special livecoding gig. On the 10th the research team will present the work undertaken doing during the residency, inviting people to participate in a citizen science event, exploring mathematics, weaving, music and code – including the brand new pattern matrix tangible weavecoding device.