Mika Tajima Negative Entropy
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Published 2015
Edition of 12 copies
Volume five is signed and numbered by the artist
Description:
Five hardcover books in a cardboard and jaquard fabric slipcase
Slipcase format: 35,4 x 26,5 x 13,7 cm - 13.9 x 10.4 x 5.3 inches
Book format: 34 x 25,5 x 2,5 cm - 13.3 x 10 x 0.9 inches
Photo printing: Digital printing on Mediajet Photo Artwhite Baryta 310 gms; Three Star Books, Paris
Spectogram printing: Digital printing on Hahnemuhle Matt Cotton Textured 300 gms; Three Star Books, Paris
Interior binding: Colored plastic coils; Three Star Books, Paris
Letterpress printing: Atelier Vincent Auger, Paris
Slipcase binding: Three Star Books, Paris
Digital Archival Pigment Print on Mediajet Photo Artwhite Baryta 310 gms and Hahnemuhle Matt Cotton Textured 300gms
Tracing paper 110grs
Cardboard punch cards for Jaquard weaving
Plastic coil binding in five colors
Letterpress printing: Atelier Vincent Auger, Paris
Please note that slipcase is available in five different colors
Negative Entropy is a series of five abstract Jacquard woven portraits of industrial and information production.
The subjects of this portrait selection are factories that employ industrial textile Jacquard looms (precursors to digital technology) and computer data center sites that comprise the infrastructure
of the information economy. These works are simultaneously images and material records of their own making.
Field recordings of production sounds were made at each site, then transmuted into digital spectrogram images using linguistic audio software. Color was assigned to the spectograms, then translated into a pattern by a weaving technician to create a Jacquard fabric.
The slipcase textile for Negative Entropy is a unique section of a weaving from one of the represented sites. These were woven on a Dornier Jacquard loom.
Special hard covers house each of the five volumes that are bound with colored plastic coils matching the cover's fabrics.
1/ MTL, this book features images of the factory and machines at MTL (Material Technology & Logistics), a Jacquard textile weaving mill, located in Jessup, Pennsylvania.
Photography: Carlos Avendaño
Original project commission “Negative Entropy” in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2/ Caledonian Dye Works, this book features images of the factory and machines at a fiber and dyeing factory located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Photography: Carlos Avendaño
Original project commission “Negative Entropy” in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3/ Langhorne Carpet Co., this book features images of the factory and machines at Langhorne Carpet Company, a carpet mill, Penndel, Pennsylvania.
Photography: Mika Tajima
Original project commission Negative Entropy in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4/ Bally Ribbon Mills, this book features images of the factory and machines at Bally Ribbon Mills, a narrow fabrics and engineered textiles factory located in Bally, Pennsylvania.
Photography: Mika Tajima, Pål Rodenius
5/ New York University Central Data Center, Volume five features coded images of New York University’s Central ITS Data Center, the global hub and infrastructure for the university’s information technology, connecting New York City directly to Abu Dhabi and Shanghai and bypassing national network firewalls. Photography of this data center is prohibited, therefore, the images are represented here as Jacquard punched cards which were translated from a digital photo taken of the site. These punched cards were made by a Jacquard card cutter at Langhorne Carpet Mill. Interleaved between the punched cards are spectrograms images made from audio recordings made at the data center