Randomly Accessed Memories | Tibi Chelcea

For the past 3 years, Tibi Chelcea has worked on a series of embroideries on circuit boards, called Randomly Accessed Memories. This series is inspired by core computer memories from the 1950’s-1960’s, which were woven by hand by pairs of workers passing a needle with copper wire back and forth through a circuit. Unfortunately, quite often, these workers were low-paying positions occupied by women. Each day of Art-a-Thon, Tibi will invite other people to work together on embroidering a circuit boards. Mimicking the original process of paired weaving, a needle with the thread would be passed between the embroiderers through the circuit board creating a new, spontaneous, design.