The Reader, created by art collective MidConversation, uses silk squares to "echo" the movement of Jacquard looms and chimes to represent binary code. The looms were controlled by binary punch cards ...
The world’s leading expert on mechanical computers wasn’t [Charles Babbage]; sure, he could design stuff, but eventually you need to actually build something. We are now graced with the expertise of ...
The origin story of software takes us back past punch card computers and Babbage’s Difference Engine to a French weaver called Joseph Marie Jacquard. Jacquard created a way to automate mechanical ...
Installation view of Pattern : Code by Ahree Lee at the Women’s Center for Creative Work (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — What is considered women’s work? Do we confine our ...
An interactive artwork which links the looms of the Industrial Revolution and the first computers has gone on show. The Reader, created by art collective MidConversation, uses silk squares to "echo" ...
The artwork allows people to "hear the sound of binary code" An interactive artwork which links the looms of the Industrial Revolution and the first computers has gone on show. The Reader, created by ...