Immigrant, Artist, Researcher: Patricia Cadavid

Event 1: 


This week I had the honor of listening to Patricia Cadavid speak on zoom this week. This event was about Patricia Cadavid’s research about Native people and their art. During this event, she talked about and showed us a khipu. This was one of the earliest forms of what is now a computer. Patricia Cadavid turned the khipu into an instrument and showed audience members how it works and also where it came from.


Khipu by Patricia Cadavid
Photo: Tom Mesic

 Another instrument that was shown and talked about is the Kanchay Yupana. This is another instrument that was created in the Americas before colonization. This instrument also uses electricity to create sound just like the khipu. 


Kanchay Yupana by Patricia Cadavid

Photo: Tom Mesic


During this event, it was so interesting to see how far technology has come and how long it has been around. These instruments are two of the blueprints for a lot of technology that we have now. This just ties into what we covered in this course last week. Technological and artistic advances are inevitable and constant. While this is true, there are still technology and art forms that will always be around because people like and appreciate them. 


Knotting the Memory//Encoding the Khipu_
Patricia Cadavid

Attending this event further solidified just how science and art have always, and will always have a relationship and go hand and hand, and this is what we are exploring in this course. Not only were these instruments used for artistic reasons, but they were also scientific advances that are, in my opinion, a part of the reason that the world is where it is today technology-wise.


Work Cited

  1. Cadavid, Patricia. “Knotting the Memory//Encoding the Khipu_.” Youtube, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCfQVPaT3Vw.
  2. CCESantiago. “Kanchay Yupana//_.” CCESantiago, https://ccesantiago.cl/evento/kanchay-yupana-_/.
  3. Michon, Romain, et al. “Knotting the Memory//Encoding the Khipu_: Reuse of an Ancient Andean Device as a Nime.” Zenodo, 1 June 2020, https://zenodo.org/record/4813495.
  4. Patricia Cadavid, https://www.patriciacadavid.net/2019/09/knotting-memoryencoding-khipu.html.
  5. Patricia Cadavid, https://www.patriciacadavid.net/search/label/kanchay_yupana.






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