Nicole Yi Messier is an esteemed creative technologist and new media artist;

Victoria Manganiello is a distinguished artist and professor of textiles. And in their work, as educators and community organizers, they have developed self-taught practices within the scope of the other's field of expertise. Years of friendship and collaboration have been spent skill swapping, sharing techniques in weaving, programming, and design work. Further, their shared passion for intersecting histories (and futures) of textiles and technology is what sparked the curiosity they found in machine knitting. Embarking on this journey, which is somehow a celebration of the larger ways crafters have always utilized community and dialogue to preserve their knowledge for future generations, examines how the internet has somehow become a location for knitters to know one another and make, together despite sometimes vast physical distance; Victoria and Nicole see technology as the future for textiles and just as clearly, they see textiles as the future for technology.