http://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html
"Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I
passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized
the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design
turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium chip, the start of the long-lived
Pentium family. The weaver, Marilou Schultz, created the artwork in 1994 using
traditional materials and techniques. The rug was commissioned by Intel as a
gift to AISES (American Indian Science & Engineering Society) and is currently
part of an art exhibition —
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
— focusing on the intersection between abstract art and woven textiles."
A really excellent in-depth article as usual.
Via Esther Schindler.
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