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- Janis Jefferies
- Janis Jefferies is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles. Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally through exhibitions and texts. In the last five years she has been working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr. Tim Blackwell). She has been a principal investigator on projects involving new haptic technologies by bringing the sense of touch to the interface between people and machines and generative software systems for creating and interpreting cultural artifacts, museums and the external environment. In the spring 2009 semester, Jefferies will be a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies.
What makes "good" art?
ReplyDeleteRules are self imposed, what ARE the rules, anyway?
Can't you be an expert at your way of making?
It is the artist's responsibility to know if they way they are crafting/making something is sufficient. If it is not, learn how do craft the object the way it needs to be crafted. Learn as you go.
deviation from a center point necessitates a recognition of the center point. However, as Janis implies, we are not born experts...we must work our way to the center point (into the order of rules). So it's not about being an expert, but learning a particular mode through process and experimentation. I would also argue that it is through deviation we arrive at culture for which we could all use more education.
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