This text explores a network of interrelationships between two superficially disparate media. Digital and fiber are entwined technologically, linguistically and socially. Digital culture does not only appropriate fiber vocabulary, it shares meaning that is tied to the history of fiber in art and civilization.

 

Wendy Angel is currently a MFA graduate student at the CADRE laboratory for new media art. She is interested in complexity, plurality and accountability in art and culture.