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DESCRIPTION:Watch the film Ulaṭbānsi / Zigzagging here.Join us for film and
  conversation. Ulaṭbānsi / Zigzagging is a short film that explores weavin
 g and musical practices in India\, commissioned by the PENELOPE project an
 d produced by the Indian collective Handloom Futures Trust. Following the 
 screening\, two members of the PENELOPE team—Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Ann
 apurna Mamidipudi—will reflect on the film and their larger project: to in
 tegrate ancient weaving into the history of science and technology\, espec
 ially digital technology. The PENELOPE project builds on the hypothesis th
 at there was a significant but tacit contribution of textile technology to
  the advent of science in ancient Greece. Starting from Gilbert Simondon’s
  observation that technologies require an original mode of existence accou
 nting for their particular form of detour\, we propose the technological z
 igzag of threads in weaving as a paradigm for this mode. The project build
 s in theory and practice on the technological principles of ancient weavin
 g that are hidden behind the relations of metaphor and concept or mythos a
 nd logos\, and which we detect in all sorts of ancient texts\, be they phi
 losophical\, poetical\, mythographic\, cosmological\, or mathematical.Elle
 n Harlizius-Klück is the principal investigator of the project PENELOPE: A
  Study of Weaving as technical mode of existence. Harlizius-Klück won a Eu
 ropean Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant in 2015 to support the pr
 oject\, which is hosted by the Research Institute for the History of Techn
 ology and Science at the Deutsches Museum in Munich\, Germany. Based on he
 r studies in mathematics\, art\, and philosophy\, Harlizius-Klück has a sp
 ecific way to look at textiles as a product of mathematical as well as aes
 thetic considerations that lead to a philosophical understanding of weavin
 g as a way to structure elements in a balanced order. Several grants have 
 allowed her to pursue this unusual topic since her 2004 PhD thesis on Weav
 ing as episteme. Annapurna Mamidipudi\, a postdoctoral fellow with the PEN
 ELOPE project in 2019 and 2020\, is currently conducting a research projec
 t on Epistemologies of Craft\, funded by the German Research Foundation at
  the Technical University Berlin\, Germany. Her research interests include
  the study of how craftspeople innovate their material practices and how t
 hey make knowledge claims to build recognition in contemporary society. To
 gether with Dagmar Schäfer at the Max Planck Institute for the History of 
 Science\, Berlin\, she is co-editing a volume on the Ownership of Knowledg
 e that looks at knowledge ownership beyond IP frameworks\, to be published
  in the MIT Press Inside Technology series.  The PENELOPE project is funde
 d by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research a
 nd innovation programme of the European Union\, Grant Agreement No 682711.
 The PENELOPE project is hosted by the Deutsches Museum.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Ulaṭbānsi / Zigzagging
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