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Chloe Bensahel sits in front of a large loom in the studio

Spotlight: May 3, 2024

CAST Visiting Artist Chloe Bensahel examines how materials carry information, including in the way they are made. “Textiles are kind of like the grandparent of contemporary technologies because it’s such a potent historical form of binary code,” she says.

May 3, 2024

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