Software Monologue
- work in progress, demo only
- textile tapestry made with linen and conductive threads
- Raspberry pi, microcontroller (Adafruit Flora), projector, display frame/structure as needed
- 70” x 40”
A piece of software that renders its complete body of code as a soft, fabric-like visual representation, projected onto a piece of textile that is refrained from fluttering. In other words, the projected code is a valid program which produces a visual representation of itself when compiled and run. The code sways, folds or gets torn in response to the viewer’s touch.
In the background, the code produces a composition entirely of typographic fragments, the image assembles itself through repetition, misalignment, and density. What might normally function as syntax is here loosened from legibility.
As a continuation of Cloth on Cloth(es), this work examines the intersecting languages of code, textiles, and text: each a system of repeated units that create meaning through pattern and structure. We think of rituals as religious undertakings but, in essence, a ritual is an act of careful observance, of attentive and constant deference. A textile is a ritual in two ways: how it is made (knot by knot, stitch by stitch, etc.) and how it exists, as an object that creates and reproduces a view of the world.