Ulaṭbānsi / Zigzagging

Watch "Ulaṭbānsi / Zigzagging" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ObYqWIkyM A film screening and conversation with Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Annapurna Mamidipudi "Ulaṭbānsi / Zigzagging" is a short film that explores weaving and musical practices in India, commissioned by the PENELOPE project and produced by the Indian collective Handloom Futures Trust. Following the screening, two members of the PENELOPE team—Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Annapurna Mamidipudi—will reflect on the film and their larger project: to integrate ancient weaving into the history of science and technology, especially digital technology. The PENELOPE project explores the contributions of textile technology to the development of scientific knowledge in ancient Greece. Starting from Gilbert Simondon’s observation that technologies require an original mode of existence accounting for their particular form of detour, we propose the technological zigzag of threads in weaving as a paradigm for this mode. The project brings to light the theoretical and practical aspects of ancient weaving which lay hidden within the metaphors and concepts of various ancient texts, be they philosophical, poetical, mythographic, cosmological, or mathematical.