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URL:https://discoverburnley.co.uk/whatson/event-title-british-textile-bien
 nial-2025-crystal-bennes-when-computers-were-women/
SUMMARY:Event title British Textile Biennial 2025- Crystal Bennes: When Com
 puters were Women
DESCRIPTION:The British Textile Biennial returns to Queen Street Mill in 20
 25. British Textile Biennial is a free festival of contemporary art\, comm
 issioning artists and designers from all over the world to make work inspi
 red by the context and legacy of the textile industry in East Lancashire a
 nd its global impact\, often in the places that were created by it.\n\nThi
 s year's exhibitions explore invention and innovation in textile productio
 n\; through indigenous knowledge to space-age technology\, from the earlie
 st form of shelter\, the tent\, to space suits\, and from plant-based dyes
  to the first polymers. At Queen Street Mill you'll be able to see Crystal
  Bennes: When Computers were Women – four woven pieces developed from a 
 residency at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research)\, the h
 ome of the Large Hadron Collider. Bennes was struck by the resemblance of 
 old computer programming punch cards produced by the former female ‘comp
 uters’ in the data centre there to the punch cards used in Jacquard loom
 s and the invisibility of the female workforce. The programme produced by 
 these cards aimed to recreate the ‘Big Bang’—the origin of the unive
 rse. Bennes collaborated with an all-women weaving team at Dash &amp\; Mil
 ler in Bristol to create the four pieces that will be exhibited in the aut
 hentic industrial setting of Queen Street Mill. Here\, visitors can explor
 e Bennes' work\, and also see a 19th-century Jacquard loom and its punchca
 rds\, witness demonstrations of historic textile machinery\, and experienc
 e the original Lancashire Looms in action—still in-situ since the mill
 ’s opening in 1895\, offering a rare and immersive glimpse into Britain
 ’s textile heritage.\n\nAfter experiencing the artwork\, visitors are wa
 rmly encouraged to explore the rest of the mill and discover its remarkabl
 e heritage first-hand.
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CATEGORIES:Burnley Town Centre,Community,Free To Attend,Kids and
 Families,Museums and Heritage,Other,Rainy Day
LOCATION:Queen street Mill Textile museum\, Queen Street\, Harle Syke\, Bur
 nley\, BB10 2XH\, United Kingdom
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