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... HELLO HELL BOOBIES
5318008 7734 0.7734 (2026)
Digital collage, woven jacquard tapestry, hand embroidery
Presented in Nature Machine, Tamworth Textile Triennial 2026 | Curated by Blake Griffiths
5318008 7734 0.7734 imagines a genesis: the moment a machine begins to operate beyond its intended purpose, and something like intelligence emerges through pattern and image.
Woven as a Jacquard tapestry, the work returns to one of the earliest programmable machines. Through punched cards, the Jacquard loom translated encoded patterns into image centuries before computation had a name. The work traces this lineage from textile production to contemporary machine intelligence, and towards a speculative birth of AI.
5318008 7734 0.7734 (2026) Detail
An inverted Flemish pastoral landscape is interrupted by early technological objects: first computers, satellites, mechanical devices and fragments of digital culture. They appear as seeds or intrusions, marking the points at which machines begin to register, process and remake the world. Traces of Australian vernacular imagery surface alongside them: road signs, animals and consumer objects that feel misremembered or improperly learned. The machine in this imagined genesis does not inherit a neutral world. It assembles one from its training data, hallucinating a place that feels uncannily, inexplicably Australian.
The title inverts to read “hello / hell / boobies”: calculator language once used as a playful, illicit form of early human-machine interaction. Recast here, the numbers become the work’s opening utterance: the first words spoken in a new technological genesis, equal parts profound and puerile, sincere and absurd.
Tamworth Textile Triennial 2026 Install Shot
Nature Machine, Tamworth Textile Triennial 2026
Curated by Blake Griffiths, Nature Machine brings together leading and emerging textile artists reflecting on the complex relationship between hand, body and machine. The exhibition considers how artists might create in ways that sustain rather than deplete the materials and ecologies they work with, through practices of growing, harvesting, recycling and reimagining textile resources, as well as virtual, AI-assisted and machine-led production.
The Tamworth Textile Triennial tours Australia until 2029, with upcoming presentations at Glasshouse Port Macquarie, Craft + Design Canberra and Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, followed by Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Fabrik Lobethal and Wangaratta Art Gallery, among others.
