HASTAC 2023 Conference

1055113200 weaves together receipts for the innumerable hours that people have given to create and sustain HASTAC. While this work is infused with data about countable events—website content, comments, commits—it also resists individualization, illusory precision, determinacy, and commensurability. Instead, it offers wholeness through patterning, playful imagery, the work of weaving, careful repairs, draping, wrinkles, folds, and so on in an effort to acknowledge the many uncapturable ways people have contributed to this community. The work was woven using a custom-built loom, to which it is still attached. As you participate in the weaving, you are putting physical form to everything we cannot count.

With assistance from Sourjyamoy Barman, Leonardo Bueno, Yvonne Chen, Michael Crockett, Eva Hymes, Schuni Mutalenu, and Xiaoyu Wei.