Craft does not become compromised- when a machine is used to create something "identical" to what would be done by hand it is a tool in the production. Right tool for the right job. May allow one to make a larger volume of work/be more prolific in ones practice. Its not about mass production.
I invite your interaction on the topics presented in the FROM TRASH TO SPECTACLE: MATERIALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRODUCTION lecture series. Your participation through comments, questions, and debate is encouraged! Below each post is a comment link where you can post your comments. Join me! -- 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.
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