cmyk-w code patch + the textile as proto-digital

“cmyk-w code patch” is a material exploration into the intertwinement of textile and digital culture. It focuses on a key peculiarity of computation as a dual-state environment. Weaving is an early

form of image-making which provided the now "digital" logic of binary states and their parallel processing: the two positions of a weaving heddle and the simultaneous inscriptions of yarns held between them.

In “cmyk-w code patch”, the cmyk color system serves as a reference to today’s translation process of turning digital images into physical, analog forms. The colour patches offer a space for combining and playing with the available spectrum, while the distance of the viewer equates to one of the states that the digital can be read as:

-> closeup – split colours – decipherable logic in the isolation of a bit or pixel

-> far away – mixed colours – application of logic into a cohesive readable image

„The textile as the proto-digital — her processes and inscription into computerlogic and coding“ is the textual extension of the project, examining the parallel erasure of textiles from digital histories and of women from the history of early computing.

Supervised by Mag.art. Manuel Wandl and Mag. Dr.phil.habil. Ramón Reichert.