Since the 1960s, Marilou Schultz Has Merged Diné Weaving and Digital Worlds

Since the 1960s, Marilou Schultz Has Merged Diné Weaving and Digital Worlds

Weaving may be the world’s oldest way of reproducing information—and computing is poised to become its final one. Across millennia, surprising similarities persist: both media operate on binary logic (over/under, on/off), are intrinsically based on counting, and are characterized by patterns that emerge structurally, not on the surface. In fact, the first automated machine, the Jacquard machine, was a loom, and weaving was a favorite metaphor em…