The Fragmented Memory is a triptych of large woven
tapestries created by the artist Phillip Stearns. It is actually a snapshot of
the artist computer’s physical memory that has been extracted from his
computer. He used his system core dump and custom software for creating this
pattern of Fragmented Memory. Core dump or memory dump contains of the stored
state of working memory at a specific time. Phillip Stearns used three
selections of the binary data and converted them to images using custom software
and then grouped 6 bits into RGB pixel (a color model in which red, green and
blue light are combined together to produce an array of colors) values. After that
64 hues in the images were mapped to a woven color palette. The resulting
patterns were then woven by a computerized Jacquard loom and he was able to
decode the original binary data to a creative woven textile. Phillip Stearns
the one who is behind this project, is an artist working with electronics media
from Brooklyn, NY. For him the main goal of making this artwork was to
represent the collapses between textiles as a medium for imagery and computer
technology and shows a visual representation of digital information.
Binary data can take on many forms: pits and lands in a thin film of metal, the alignment of magnetic domains on a metal platter, the presence or absence of charges on capacitive FET transistor gates, light and dark markings on a piece of paper, or different binding patterns in a woven textile. Each has its own materiality, physicality, scale, and temporal dimensions, as well as cultural significance.
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