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“Artists work to imagine futures, synthesizing the past with the present through material exploration. This is a messy process, which requires are unique balance of sincerity, deep contemplation, light-heartedness, and faith.”
Jovencio de la Paz is an artist, weaver, and educator. Their current work explores the intersecting histories of weaving and modern computers. Rhyming across millennia, the stories of weaving and computation unfold as a space of speculation. Trained in traditional processes of weaving, dye, and stitchwork but reveling in the complexities and contradictions of digital culture, they work to find relationships between concerns of language, embodiment, pattern, and code and broad concerns of ancient technology, speculative futures, and the phenomenon of emergence. Currently, de la Paz is an assistant professor and curricular head of fibers at the University of Oregon.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Ford Family Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.12.2024
Jovencio de la Paz. Bionumeric Organisms 2.0, 2021. Handwoven TC2 textile and canvas, cotton, dimensions 36 × 24 inches.
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Bionumeric Organisms, 2021. Handwoven TC2 textile and canvas, cotton, dimensions 24 × 36 inches.
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Bionumeric Organisms, 2021. Handwoven TC2 textile and canvas, cotton, dimensions 24 × 36 inches.
Photo courtesy of the artist.