https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/27ff23769543349647273cef1941322a.jpg 38fb82cb0d9f8f89c534ea4a52e66a62 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alisan Hoffman: signal lost Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Wall weaving with black and white boxes with multicolor thread. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/a143e2ac601699cf3f0c7683030903ea.jpg 947b2e01f4e99dc6b82bae15a1a0a3a2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alisan Hoffman: signal lost Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Close up view of edge of weaving. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/298245482e5d0a02ef49ad4bc645fcc7.jpg a06cc9d3a8983df3a93f6232f8a520d9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alisan Hoffman: signal lost Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Close up view of weaving pattern with black, white, and multicolor blocks. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/e176a48f9608a72a26952b5479789ebc.jpg e9df8984793c1aeff223a06f120a0ec0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alisan Hoffman: signal lost Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Close up view of side angle to show weaving's dimensionality. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource signal lost Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hoffman, Alisan Abstract A summary of the resource. signal lost is a woven work that explores a space that exists in both the historical analogue and the contemporary digital world. Its creation on a floor loom means there is a physicality as deeply entrenched into it as the threads that hold it together. Each line on the textile was created through the movement of feet, the shifting of hands—a pull to lock it in place, a step to start the next pass. Its creation honors the lost tradition of loom weavers, who have been replaced by fully automatic machines. And yet its historical overshot patterning has been reinterpreted to look more like a digital screen. The title of the work, signal lost, refers to what happens when a cable is misplaced or disconnected from a monitor. The interchanging black and white rectangles bring to mind the pixels that make digital displays possible. The color of the work references TV color bars, but shows more like a static effect within the weaving. Even the tassels at the bottom have been made to look like cords hanging from a digital screen. signal lost shows how a work can unite two worlds—the physical and digital—that seem entirely separate. It highlights both in a weaving that cannot be fully tied to one or the other: it is an inbetween, a gray space in a world where things seem to be presented only as black or white. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026