slowly drifting into creative coding
Open GalleryWho is Emma-Jane
MacKinnon-Lee?
A photographer, creative programmer and video maker working between fashion, archives and weird little digital tools. Her work mixes DIY vintage style, open source prints, historical images, code experiments and playful storytelling.
Working since:
2016
Emma-Jane was born in Barcelona, Spain.
27/04/
1995
Em-Jane
spent several years in Berlin working with DIGITALAX, a fashion and computation studio exploring what happens when clothing, code, image systems and digital fabrication are treated as part of the same process. Her role moved between visual research, photography, creative coding and production, helping develop experiments with generative prints, motion-based lookbooks, interactive garment documentation and small tools for turning archive images into usable design material.
The Berlin period became an important part of her work because it gave her a more technical way to think about fashion without losing the handmade side of it. She worked with designers, programmers, pattern cutters, video artists and fabric suppliers on projects that sat somewhere between studio practice and software experiment. Some days meant photographing samples or testing print files. Other days meant cleaning datasets, building quick browser sketches, helping with projection tests or figuring out why a video system refused to behave five minutes before an install.
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It also sharpened her interest in open source fashion. At DIGITALAX, she became more involved in shared pattern systems, digital garment archives and tools that let smaller makers adapt, remix and document their own work without needing a huge production setup. That approach still runs through her current projects: practical, playful, slightly messy, and built around the idea that fashion can be more interesting when people are allowed to see and change how it is made.
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