These works take a look at the ENRON corpus, or the large dataset of over 600000 emails between 158 employees leading up to the collapse of the Enron Corporation in 2001. This collection has been used to shape the way marketing email and spam looks like today (among other consequences). While the language in the emails themselves has been heavily mined, one less explored aspect are the email attachments that can be found in this corpus. These include files such as .svg, .psd, .jpg, .gif, and .png files; but also formats that are obscure and can't be opened reliably with a modern computer.
So far, this project has produced weavings that are derivative of files in the ENRON Corpus Attachments; created using a TC2 loom at Praxis Fiber Lab in Cleveland, OH. They are part of an ongoing project to create physical sculptures using the large archive of files in the ENRON corpus, which offers a wide range of early internet ephemera: clip art, computer icons, AutoCAD files and restaurant menu templates.
