Text and Commentary

Text and Commentary is a work of several components. There are five finely woven weavings programmed with slight changes in pattern structure as you read from weave 1 to weave 5. Opposite these in the exhibition are five video monitors built into a wall.There are also five weavers’ notations of enlarged sections of each of the five weaves, and pictographic notations of the video portion of the work. All of these provide varying perspectives of virtually the same information but in a variety of scales, media, and contexts and translated into different systems of compositions.

Korot was one of the first to acknowledge the loom as the first computer on earth in that it programs pattern according to a numerical structure, and also that the loom, video and print communication technologies all encrypt information in lines, a link between the ancient and the modern.

The installation work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. VDB is pleased to offer a single-channel composite video of the five-channel video element of the artwork for educational use.