Jacquard Loom

“Adam and Eve were undoubtedly our first customers for textiles. The moment they discarded their fig leaf, there was created an immediate market for textile garments” (Blum 4).

Short History: Joseph-Marie Jacquard and His Weaving Automaton

Description of parts and how it works as a weaving medium:

Performativity (Gitelman, Vismann, ?)

The separation of technical and cultural performativity from hereon...

-Caught in a web of changing perceptions of who operates, who inscribes, and who performs? (Gitelman, Vismann, perhaps? Outside sources) -New modes of address, then.

Visuality and Chevreul (Kittler, Crary)

Self Portrait of Chuck Close on tapestry from a mechanized Jacquard loom, Magnolia Editions

Old Media (Manovich)

--> Obsolete mode of mediation? (Lev Manovich)

Legacy: Computers and Control (Winner, Mowshowitz)

-Is it a legitimate early computer? Davis and Davis;

-Technological Determinism (Winner, Mowshowitz):

-Material Specificity and Function argument: -Davis and Davis: -Rojas and Hashagen: