Marilou Schultz (b.1954 Navajo) --- Replica of a Chip 1994
In 1994, the Intel Corporation commissioned Schultz to weave a replica of a Pentium microprocessor using the traditional techniques she learned as a child on the Navajo/Diné reservation. It was intended for a publicity campaign in which the Silicon Valley company proposed – not for the first time – affinities between native American aesthetics and advanced technologies. Specifically, Intel aligned the expertise of the skilled textile makers with the dexterity of the Indigenous female workforce it planned to hire to assemble circuit boards in a factory newly constructed on Navajo/Diné land.
Marilou Schultz (b.1954 Navajo) --- Replica of a Chip 1994
In 1994, the Intel Corporation commissioned Schultz to weave a replica of a Pentium microprocessor using the traditional techniques she learned as a child on the Navajo/Diné reservation. It was intended for a publicity campaign in which the Silicon Valley company proposed – not for the first time – affinities between native American aesthetics and advanced technologies. Specifically, Intel aligned the expertise of the skilled textile makers with the dexterity of the Indigenous female workforce it planned to hire to assemble circuit boards in a factory newly constructed on Navajo/Diné land.