"The Computer Pays Its Debt" Catalog

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The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 Weaving lies at the heart of the Information Age. Many cite the Jacquard Loom as inspiration for the first co mputers. Yet this is where most histories stop, a move that positions craft's influence on technology as a curiosity. The Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.Published by the Center for Craft for the 2020 Curatorial Fellowship exhibition, The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985, curated by Kayleigh Perkov. On view at Center for Craft in Summer 2020. Essay by Kayleigh Perkov. Show more