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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.
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ReplyDeleteObviously craft exists outside of high art context, and its makers are fine with that.
-JNKR
"purity" is such a loaded concept in art speak...I think it is overlooking the circular nature of things to think it is possible for something to be "pure". Attempts to reduce the concept of painting to it's "purest" state (thinking of painting as a craft and skill), resulted in a lot of division and conceptually exciting things, I think this shows itself in craft histories as well...maybe this is not what is being asked as far as craft goes, but "pure" is a loaded word for me..
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