What happens when you let two people, from two two different design backgrounds just experiment, research and see what happens? You have COMPUTER 1.0, a collaborative installation from textile artist and educator, Victoria Manganiello and industrial designer and BF+DA TEK-TILES alumnus, Julian Goldman exploring the industrial revolution’s impact on textiles, tech and even future societies being built now.
According to Goldman, Computer 1.0 reminds its onlookers that society has been grappling with digital existentialism and the uncertain potential of technology with the overarching question, how does all of this make our lives better?
A textile woven with polymer tubing programmed to pump synthetic dye through itself in coded patterns, COMPUTER 1.0 explores the history of the computer and its connection to the loom as well as the (dys)utopias of a technological world. Because this history is all but forgotten in our understanding of humanity’s digital maturation, the project seeks to pay homage to the forbearers of computer history…
C O M P U T E R 1.0 from victoria manganiello on Vimeo.
