Pixelweaver · Daniel Canogar

Pixelweaver draws on textiles as a metaphor to portray the social fabric that emerges from a data-driven society. Daniel Canogar developed a virtual loom utilizing craft techniques, generating various patterns from multiple data sources. The works acknowledge the close relationship between information technology and textiles in reference to the jacquard loom, considered by many historians to be the first computer. Featuring three bodies of work — Abacus, presenting real-time financial data as woven fiscal mosaics; Túnica, generative tapestries memorializing ecosystem elements; and Chyron, a large-scale projection weaving live news captions from CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg, BBC News, Reuters, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and Le Monde into a frayed information fabric.