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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, if the artist has a definite purpose for using sloppy craft and it supports/enhances his/her concept.
ReplyDelete-Soo & Jacob
Sloppy is an exciting word... here's some definitions I found online
ReplyDeletemy faves have to do with the "over-emotional" and "lacking...order" "haphazard",applied to making objects, I think it's exciting to consider the connection between emotion and body movement and messiness...
www.wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
SLOPPY
lacking neatness or order;
wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor";
boggy: (of soil) soft and watery;
baggy: not fitting closely; hanging loosely;
overemotional: excessively or abnormally emotional
haphazard: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping";