EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN
ECU faculty Member Awarded $72,000 SSHRC Grant for New Project

The artist and ECU faculty member was awarded for Core Memories, a research-creation project exploring the crucial contributions of women in the development of magnetic core memory.

Artist and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) faculty member Emily Hermant has been awarded a $72,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant for her project Core Memories: Retracing the Fabric of Computing Technology.

The project will explore magnetic core memory,' an early computer memory system widely used from the 1950s to 1970s. The technology was "produced through intricate and laborious hand-weaving processes by largely unidentified women workers using copper wire and magnetized rings," Emily says.