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The Nike Blanket Petition
Cat Mazza		  
     

Cat Mazza
microRevolt
PO Box 1659
Troy, NY 12180
U.S.A.
Tel: +518 253 5830
http://www.microrevolt.org/petition_overview.htm


The Nike Blanket Petition is an initiative of microRevolt, a collective of fiber hobbyists and cyber-activists founded by artist Cat Mazza. The mission of microRevolt is to organize new media projects that promote sweatshop awareness and investigate the current crisis of global expansion and the feminization of labor.

The Nike Blanket Petition is a 14-foot wide blanket made up of knitted together squares. Each square becomes a pixel that makes up a bitmap of the Nike swoosh logo, and each square acts as a hand made petition for fair labor policies for Nike apparel workers. Participants from the United States and abroad have come together to knit or crochet a petition or virtually sign a square through the microRevolt.org website. The project combines Internet technology with traditional craft as a way of engaging social networks, whether in face-to-face knitting circles or an on-line community in dialog about the labor process of garment production.

  Nike Blanket Petition
An international collective of knit and crochet hobbyists have stitched a 14-foot wide blanket of the Nike Swoosh.
     
Nike Swoosh
The stitched blanket of the Nike Swoosh.		   The Nike Blanket Petition has toured various knitting circles including ones held in New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and has received on-line signatures from over 20 countries. Once the blanket is complete with a border, it will be presented to the Chairman of the Board of Nike corporation, Phil Knight as a gesture of hope toward abolishing the sweatshop conditions for Nike apparel workers.

 
Artist Biography

Cat Mazza
Cat Mazza founded microRevolt in 2003 to combine her interests in media activism, women’s labor issues, and art. From 1999-2003 she worked at Eyebeam, a non-profit new media art center in New York City where she developed education, curatorial and technology programs. She is currently teaching electronic arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she received her Master of Fine Arts. 2005 exhibitions include: Prix Ars Electronica, where she won a “Digital Communities” award; SESI gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil; "Fuzzy Logic" at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, UK, and the "Upgrade International" at Eyebeam in New York City.
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