Do you think your earlier experiences with craft have colored how you aproach craft now?
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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.
Yes, craft feels like an accessible solution because of my introduction as a kid. -sw
ReplyDeletemy previous craft based training has made me realize the importance of craft, and hounour craft for the sake of craft.
ReplyDeleteIve come to realize that craft is what led me to "art"/art school, although when applying I was not engaged in any kind "craft-making" practices, as part of the whole "craft is different from art" consciousness. Since then, it seems that I've only been able to make any work that seems to have some sort of truth/authenticity/blah blah blah/goodness to it by saying screw it and allowing myself to return to the "craft" ways of making that started me on this "art" road to begin with. There is a point at which every art piece can be discussed as being "crafted", regardless of technique/skill/etc, and this idea has led me to realize that I probably made much more interesting work when I was a kid sitting around making crafts, than when I sit as an adult and try to consciously "say/do something with a piece". So yes, my earlier experiences with "craft" and "art" and "craftart" have completely colored my relationships to these things as well as my process of making.
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