Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón

Developed in collaboration with data scientist Vanessa Foster
2021

Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón (Cotton price prediction algorithm) surges from a crossover between art and data science. It starts from the desire to find a way to encode and embed a computational process in the material construction of an object, so that a mathematical algorithm would dictate the tangible structure that shapes said object.
To do this, we converted machine learning algorithms-modified to predict the price of cotton-into multivariate polynomials. Then, using a method inspired by mathematician and weaver Ada Dietz (1949), we translate these polynomials into weaving patterns. Using cotton yarns, the data are encoded in the way the yarns are interwoven, in their colors and in their thickness. In this way, the algorithm is embodied in the fabric structure. The resulting piece aims to link the abstract data and its processing to the material world that supports it.



Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón

woven textile with cotton yarn
75 x 180 cm
2021
Installation view. “La rebelión de los artefactos” at Galería Rosa Santos. Madrid - ES. 2021





Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón

pencil and colored pencil on graph paper
70 x 38 cm cm
2021
Installation view. “La rebelión de los artefactos” at Galería Rosa Santos. Madrid - ES. 2021





Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón

pencil and colored pencil on graph paper
70 x 38 cm cm
2021
detail





Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón

pencil and colored pencil on graph paper
70 x 38 cm cm
2021
detail





Algoritmo predictivo del precio del algodón

pencil and colored pencil on graph paper
70 x 38 cm cm
2021
detail