Listen to the voice of Charlotte Johannesson, political messages, politics of the everyday, weaving text and image, image and text, a studio of her own, 1960s
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1978 she trades her loom for a personal computer, 280 pixels on the horizontal side and 192 pixels on the vertical side, just like treads on the loom
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Apple II Plus, mass produced desktop computer, 16 KB, 32 KB, 48 KB RAM, Language Card, BASIC, autostart ROM, no lowercase functionality, repeat key, artifact color, draw, erase, scale and rotate vector-based shapes, Microfix, zoom and scroll over map imagery, a point database of intelligence data
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1981 The Digital Theater, defining the space of a network of 9 computers, a digital workshop for art, computer graphics on screen or plotted on paper, Utopia, Coloring Board, floppy disks, coding, Charlotte Johannesson becomes a channeler, an avatar
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Crossing seas and mountains, moving through the information web, non-physical realms, rampant associations, blending together, the digital zone, hypersea, the matrix of the future
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Textile craft, complex brocades, Hemslöjden, Hannah Ryggen’s woven tapestries, 1930 40 50s, figurative, explicitly political, a portal
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Glitch, machinic mutiny, refusal, malfunctions, slipperiness, wild wanderer
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Computer as electronic device, 1936 Alan Turing, On Computable Numbers, A Universal Machine, decoding and performing any set of instructions, 1940s modern computers, filling entire rooms
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Zeroes and ones, the effect of a binary world, a hole, a gap, a space, a nothing, a fault, a flaw, a lack, an absence, no center of operations, no organizing core, nets, self-organizing, without any centralized control, in the peripheries, thread, links, yarn, each part can dismantle the whole structure
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DB-9, DIN-8 connector, SCSI, ADB, AAUI, FriendlyNet, 15-pin D connector, 10-base-T Ethernet jacks, Coaxial, HDI-45, Parallel ATA, ADC, Universal Serial Bus, FireWire, Thunderbolt
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Ada 1842 Lovelace, numbers are symbolic of other things, sounds, graphics, flowers, weaves algorithmic patterns, conceptual leap, computing not calculating, punched cards, jacquard loom
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Glitch, forcing hesitation, make a mess, an unbecoming of the normative body, a becoming of material bodies, too soon or too late, launched in the wrong place at the wrong time, speaking out of turn, time against time, mangling plans for the future, suggesting alternatives, forced quit
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1974 THE HOME COMPUTER IS HERE, microcomputer revolution, hobby, time-sharing, programs with no obvious military, business or scientific purpose, AMAZIN Draw a Maze, perl pie, all wrongs reserved, the hacker ethic of code sharing, datableeding
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Charlotte Johannesson continues her work, plotting, coloring, programming, image and text, text and image, Spinning Our Own Fates, E-hole: Action Attitude Argument, A Note in Space, High Forever
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Just out of reach of the real maps, put monsters at the edges, the unknown is infinite, anything at all may lurk in it, always dwellers in the penumbras, maps are frozen journeys, journeys from the past, slipstream fictions, in another time, in another dimension, through a doorway, in other worlds, a being not-yourself, a no man’s land, let’s say, her island is an island of transformation, ourselves, seen through a glass, darkly, BrainPort, artificial?
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Of course it is
– Ann Lislegaard lives in Copenhagen. She into 3D animations, sculpturing, programming, editing, sound/light and image making. Lislegaard reads science fiction, watches science fiction and makes science fiction.
