The digital revolution is unleashing an entirely new set of paradigms and perspectives for the future -- involving cybernetic, non-linear processes which cut across and interconnect all areas of material life, from human culture to geological shifts (hence the singular importance of Fault Lines). This new emphasis on how things work fatally undermines orthodox conceptions of Art and Science, which have perhaps never been quite as important as they may have thought. While they have been imposing their authority for the last 200 -- not to mention the last 2000 -- years, technique itself has been evolving and becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. The processes of spinning, plaiting, and weaving have been imperceptibly changing the world, finally emerging as the digitization of reality, and as new possibilities for matter to interconnect and engineer itself in unprecedented patterns and new designs.

As both male -- and many female -- practitioners increasingly work with computerized looms, intelligent fabrics, pixelled screens, and the Internet, these connections between sex, textiles, and technical processes are converging as never before.