![A textile designed and woven using a specialized adaptation of Nils Aall Barricelli’s “BioNumeric Organism” program written in the 1950s.](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2022-02/holding-jovencio-cumulative-shadow-dsc_7546.jpg?itok=8f4vipwb)
BioNumeric Organisms 2.0, Handwoven Jacquard cotton, 36 x 24 inches, 2021
This textile was designed and woven using a specialized adaptation of Nils Aall Barricelli’s BioNumeric Organism program written in the 1950s. The adaptation was developed to use the original algorithms to output weavable structures and patterns for a digital Jacquard loom
![Art by Jovencio de la Paz](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2022-02/holding-jovencio-cumulative-shadow-dsc_7547.jpg?itok=y9PGVc34)
BioNumeric Organisms, Handwoven Jacquard cotton, 24 x 36 inches, 2021
This textile was designed and woven using a specialized adaptation of Nils Aall Barricelli’s BioNumeric Organism program written in the 1950s. The adaptation was developed to use the original algorithms to output weavable structures and patterns for a digital Jacquard loom
![Installation by Jovencio de la Paz](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2022-02/holding-jovencio-cumulative-shadow-dsc_7561.jpg?itok=eCezMzmG)
Cumulative Shadow, installation view, 2021
This solo exhibition of digitally designed and woven textiles was presented at Holding Contemporary in Portland, OR in the summer of 2021
![Tapestries by Jovencio de la Paz.](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2022-02/img_3124.jpg?itok=ccusTlrX)
10 Failed Circles, Handwoven Jacquard cotton, 26 x 26 inches each, 2021
This body of work takes advantage of aspect ratio conundrums inherent to the translation of digital imagery into physical cloth. Aspect ratio, which is a term most often associated with film and video, has its historical origins in woven cloth, where the thickness and thinness of thread alters and warps the regularity of a woven image, such as in a pictorial tapestry.
![Art by Jovencio de la Paz](/sites/default/files/styles/custom_xl/public/2022-02/shade1-small.jpg?itok=6rh1uJn_)
10 Failed Circles, Handwoven Jacquard cotton, 52 x 34 inches, 2021
This textile was woven using a simple drawing program designed by the artist while in residency at the Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts in Pendleton, OR. The software is inspired a historic computer graphics issue, in which programmers have attempted to mimic the naturally occurring phenomenon of overlapping shadows from multiple light sources generating progressively darker shadows.