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Play, download and edit the free video Jacquard Weaving: Apple IIe and Amiga animation stills.

The early personal computers that I am exploring on this video, the apple IIe and Commodore Amiga 500, were limited to certain parameters of what was made available to the public. This is in contrast to the more powerful computers that were only available through University and Corporate Labs (NYIT, Bell Labs, Xerox Parc, etc), and the paint systems that were used to create Computer Graphics, Computer Art and Video Art of the late 1960's through the 1980's.

I am interested in how these larger systems effected the dawn of the personal computer, and the subsequent paint, animation and digitizing hardware and software that was created for these computers from the late 1970's through the 1990's.

My work also speaks about obsolescence, and the relationship between computers and weaving. Jacquard Looms being the first “computers” in a sense, which were programmed and automated using punch cards.

Some of the ideas I'm exploring are:

-Weaving as stored Information.
-Information stored in pattern.
-Transmitting stories through weaving.
-Documenting obsolescence through weaving.

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