Textiles and Technology: Needlework as Data Storage and Feminist Process

Textiles and Technology: Needlework as Data Storage and Feminist Process 1900-2020

Appearing in the book Feminist Digital Humanities, this chapter takes the histories, contexts, and methods of textile arts and brings them into conversation with digital humanities by tracing shared histories and parallel practices within often overlooked and (largely) femme and feminized spaces. Doing so reveals the ways data-centric media artifacts and technologies evolved out of tools and techniques associated with gendered spaces and practices. Examining textiles themselves, the chapter considers what textiles, specifically their materiality and situatedness, can add to the conversation about future data storage initiatives through notions of embodiment.

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