Archive Machines at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Archive Machines brings together artists whose works explore the ways in which archival structures and materials are interpreted, appropriated, and interrogated. My video Pattern : Code and weaving Timesheet: November 4-11, 2018 are included in this online exhibition, on view July 30–November 1, 2020. My work is also featured in one of the educator guides accompanying the exhibition.
Both of these artworks illuminate the hidden connections between weaving and computing by examining interrelationships among technology, craft, and women’s labor. Timesheet: November 4–10, 2018 and Pattern : Code are inspired by code, algorithms, and self-generated labor data. The word ‘technology’ comes from the Greek ‘techne,’ meaning ‘art’ or ‘craft,’ and the same technology that runs Jacquard weaving looms was used in the first computers, which were programmed mostly by women. Pattern : Code seeks to restore memory and flip the script on the male-dominated tech narrative.
This annual juried exhibition is presented in an interactive web format this year, bringing together 44 artists selected by a jury comprising of Olivian Cha, Curator and Collections Manager, Corita Art Center, Los Angeles; Kerstin Erdmann, Director & Partner, Galería OMR, Mexico City and Director of the MA program Contemporary Art, Markets and Management at Centro in partnership with the Sotheby´s Institute of Art; and Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head Contemporary Art, LACMA, Los Angeles.