Phillip Stearns, a Brooklyn-based artist, whose projects straddle digital art and textile design, has recently created a set of three large, woven tapestries, the design of which is based on binary data extracted from his computer.

With Fragmented Memory, he aims to blur the lines between photography, digital art and textiles. The tapestries are designed to be touched, while still embodying the digital world. The artist used custom software, converting his forgotten data into images. The bits of binary code from his computer were grouped into woven pixels, and simplified into sixty-four different RGB values that were translated into different colours. The palette was created with the help of eight different colours of yarn.

The artist's previous project, Glitch Textiles, explores similar themes. Digital photographic images, made with intentionally broken (manually rewired) cameras, that were translated into a photo blanket. It is interesting to see seemingly boring digital data being translated into something far more visually appealing.