Discrete Model 021
collage
2019-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
Discrete Model 021 is part of a series of collages that refer to the history and logics of computer programming; reflecting on human history in relation to technology, and a post-human future. Here background and foreground collide, breaking down visual information from found imagery to restructure the content in a new way. The weaving element and inclusion of photographic images mirror Macuga’s machine-woven tapestry works. It also references British mathematician Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage's use of Jacquard weaving looms in the development of the Analytical Engine. -
Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- computing, weaving (as Subject), technology, analytical engine, jacquard weaving loom, computer programming
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), collage, photo-collage, paper collage, woven
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Details
- Artist
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Goshka Macuga (1967 - )
- Title
- Discrete Model 021
- Date
- 2019
- Medium
- collage
- Dimensions
- height: 90.6 cm; width: 66.1 cm; depth: 3.9 cm
- Acquisition
- Gift of the artist via the Outset/Government Art Collection Fund, with additional funds provided by the Government Art Collection, December 2020
- GAC number
- 18877