• Read how PhD candidate Alicia DeVrio explores the tension between stability and collapse through woven forms. • By Amelia De Leon For Alicia DeVrio, a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, the loom is a site of sociotechnical resistance. • Her exhibition at The Frame Gallery, titled “STRUCTURE/LESS: holding together // falling apart,” served as a tactile exploration while on view to the public, January 30-February 1. • DeVrio’s work centers on the friction between structure and structurelessness. • DeVrio takes existing, traditional patterns and modifies them via computer software to introduce irregularities. • By leaving large sections of the warp unwoven, she allows the fabric to droop and drape, creating forms that seem to be simultaneously disintegrating and coalescing.

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  • Read how PhD candidate Alicia DeVrio explores the tension between stability and collapse through woven forms. By Amelia De Leon For Alicia DeVrio, a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute, the loom is a site of sociotechnical resistance. Her exhibition at The Frame Gallery, titled “STRUCTURE/LESS: holding together // falling apart,” served as a tactile exploration while on view to the public, January 30-February 1. DeVrio’s work centers on the friction between structure and structurelessness. DeVrio takes existing, traditional patterns and modi

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