About the project
Binary Loom
Binary Loom is a kinetic textile installation that materialises real-time environmental data through interwoven embroidered strips. Drawing on the binary logic of textile construction, the same principles that inspired early computing through the Jacquard loom, it transforms static fabric into a dynamic display. Individually controlled textile strips are wound and unwound, allowing the woven surface to continuously change in response to live information.
For this installation, the data source is Senzor vzduchu, a Czech community-based air quality monitoring network built on the open Sensor.Community infrastructure. Each textile strip represents one sensor location, making invisible environmental processes tangible through movement, texture, and material. By translating distributed data into a woven physical media, Binary Loom shows the interconnected nature of air, technology, and collective responsibility for the environments we share.
