Collective Loom

“The Collective Loom Project” is loom in which 4 to 8 people can simultaneously weave on the loom. The ‘brain’ of the loom is a cylinder with pins that functions as an analogic computer and in which various patterns are processed. The weaving machine is operated by numerous participants, normally unknown to each other, that have to collaborate in order to weave. This is a learning process during which the empathic mechanism is activated and will gradually affect the appearance of the fabric too. With this I refer to the complexity of human behavioral patterns and how people become interwoven in each other's processes.