Using textiles as a metaphor for the social fabric that emerges from a data-driven society, Daniel Canogar created "Pixelweaver," a virtual loom based on craft techniques. This algorithmic tool enables the creation of a wide range of patterns from different data sources.
"Pixelweaver" draws on textiles as a metaphor to portray the social fabric that emerges from a data-driven society. For this exhibition, Daniel Canogar manifests a virtual loom based on craft techniques. This algorithmic tool enables the creation of a wide range of patterns from different data sources. Exhibited works pay tribute to the close relationship between information technology and textiles in reference to the jacquard loom, considered by many historians to be the first computer.
"Abacus" displays and reinterprets real-time financial information from main stock market indexes, such as Dow Jones, Nasdaq, FTSE, and DAX, as well as data from cryptocurrency and foreign exchange markets. The artwork reformulates ticker tapes, paper ribbons imprinted with stock pricing dating back to the late nineteenth century, as the earliest means of financial communication. Prices from each index fund appear as intersecting stripes that turn into the warp and weft of a fiscal mosaic.
"Túnica" is a series of generative tapestries powered by diverse data sources. Each patchwork is imprinted in a different digital fabric—embossed silver and gold, intertwining stripes of fibrous greens, and rich braided leather. This body of work focuses on honoring and memorializing integral aspects of our shared ecosystem, ritualizing death, extinction, and regeneration.
In a continuation of the artist’s examination of woven material, "Chyron" is rendered using electronically generated captions that appear at the bottom of the screen during news broadcasts. Projected in large-scale across the main room of the gallery, Canogar’s chyrons intertwine as a large frayed fabric, a tangle that evokes the fragile and at times unstable balance of an information ecosystem created from disparate and even conflicting sources. Updated in real time, this algorithmic artwork features headings from major international news channels, including CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg, BBC News, Reuters, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and Le Monde.
Pixelweaver Developer: Cristobal Mendoza
Technical Director: Diego Mellado
Creative: Jorge Anguita
Production: Ana Saracho