From her ‘70s publication Radical Software, to her own studio practice, Beryl Korot pushes the line between technology and communication. Watch a video of her work and listen to a podcast of an artist’s talk she gave at the Aldrich Museum.

Drop me a line, we say it so often. As a line, language is dimensional—a connection between two points, two telephones, two computers. From the 1970s publication Radical Software, which she co-edited, to her own studio practice incorporating video, language, and memory, Beryl Korot pushes the line between technology and communication especially pertinent in a time when communication is technology.

This is a point of convergence she traces back to the loom, what she cites as the world’s first computer, where language is encrypted in lines of warp and weft.

Her exhibition Text/Weave/Line—Video, 1977–2010, currently on view at the Aldrich Museum, brings together her seminal multi-channel video work Text/Commentary, which debuted in 1977 at Leo Castelli Gallery, along with two text-based video portraits of Florence Nightingale and Etty Hillesum.

The following recording is an excerpt from an artist talk between Shimon Attie and Beryl Korot held at the Aldrich Museum on June 27, 2010 on the occasion of the exhibition’s opening.

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