A founding editor of the influential journal Radical Software, Beryl Korot (1945, New York) made a significant contribution to the nascent discourse on video art and media ecology in the 1970s. The installation Text and Commentary (1976–7) comprises woven textiles, drawings, a pictographic score and five channels of video running in a 30-minute loop. The work establishes a dialogue between traditional weaving techniques and the medium of video (first adopted by artists in the mid-1960s), which are both rooted in the encoding and transmission of information. The videos show the artist working at a loom while the drawings describe the patterns of the weave and the pictographic score illustrates the video editing process. According to Korot, these elements ‘provide varying perspectives on virtually the same information’ yet all within their unique limitations: ‘Weaving in the West was not given the stature it deserved, visually or intellectually. It was relegated to the category of craft as apart from art, a distinction not made in non-Western cultures. It was crucial for me to look at the loom as a sophisticated technology, the first computer, and dispel the demeaning notion of women’s work while shining a spotlight on a tool that impacted all aspects of human industry, commerce and culture.’