Cyber-Textiles

I weave the patterns of brain structures, microchips, microsensors, bar codes and machine language. - W. Logan Fry

As a weaver, I have noticed striking similarities between the designs incorporated into traditional and ethnographic textiles, on the one hand, and contemporary technological design, on the other. Ancient, “primitive” and traditional cultures have often used the complexity afforded by strong design not merely for aesthetic purposes, but also to record complex information pertaining to such important matters as hunting lore, epic battles, genealogy, the spirit world and sacred rite.

The complicated patterns of microchips have a parallel purpose - to facilitate the recording and manipulation of information through complex, digital pathways; but the designs themselves are often remarkably similar to traditional, ethnographic design.