For the series of works called Tenerife Tech, 
I combined the early computer technology of weaving ferrite rings with copper wires to create magnetic-core memory, and the lace-making technique called Tenerife, which involves stitching and knitting threads usually in the shape of a circle, giving it the name of Spider Lace, or Sun Lace. The origin of this knitting technique remains unknown, but it appeared for the first time in European paintings from the 16th century. The Spanish spread it during their colonial expansion, including the Canary Islands, giving it its current name: roseta Canaria, or roseta de Tenerife. It was traditionally made with silk or cotton, but when the Belgian Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary from Ghent arrived in the late 19th century in what was then known as Congo Free State (now D.R. Congo), they forced children to copy Tenerife lace in local materials like raffia and tree bark. They learned the Tenerife technique on the Canary Islands, a regular stop from Antwerp in Belgium to Matadi in the Congo Free State, and introduced it in the early mission schools. It was initially presented as a form of civilizational reform to turn young Congolese girls into morally well-behaved Catholic housewives until it grew into a massive industry for tourist souvenirs (Van Beurden, 2020). Tenerife Tech is made with copper wires to connect with the copper circuits or veins that are part of every electronic device and with D.R. Congo, the largest copper producer in the world, for a long time during Belgian colonization in the 20th century. It is laced with ferrite rings, resistors, capacitors, silicon microchips, shells and trade beads to reconnect with the colonial legacy of lace-making but also the historical importance of binary code invention in Africa and the role it played in the externalization process of memory throughout human history.