The work Kristen Roos creates explores the premise that weavings created by punched card Jacquard looms of the 1800s were the first example of an image created from data, as a kind of early form of digital image. This connects to his research with personal computers, and would add a wider historical context to his research into the roots of the digital image.

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s exhibition Pathfinder, presents a rare and unique window into the evolution of one of the early innovators of digital art starting with the purchase of her first Macintosh personal computer in 1984. Within this unassuming beige cube, Buffy quickly discovered the power, flexibility, potential and the infinite possibilities presented to her through this sudden democratization of technology.