Report: Going digital: all makers now? craft values in 21st century production
Skeels, Rebecca (2014) Report: Going digital: all makers now? craft values in 21st century production. Findings (59). pp. 24-25. ISSN 2041-7047
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Report on 'All Makers Now?' conference at Falmouth University, 8 - 11 July 2014, organised by the Autonomatic Research Group.
The 'All Makers Now?' workshop and conference was amongst many digital technology exhibitions and events taking place across the UK this year.
The constituency of the delegates was broad and as the organisers state: ‘this event was aimed at makers and researchers of all shapes and codes including hackers, crafters, inventors, designers, economists, curators and critical theorists.’ All the participants were eager to work out their focus and direction, by exploring how combining crafts and digital skills can bring about new opportunities and debates.
The event started with a two day workshop in which the attendees were split into three groups in order to design and make a piece of work to be exhibited at Trelissick House.
The teams worked extremely well together, combining skills and knowledge of a variety of digital technologies, from researching online, designing on computer, to programming and finally producing the work with computer-aided machines.
The workshop was followed by a two day conference with a huge variety of talks and lectures, leaving all visitors in thought, questioning and relating the digital technologies to their own work, how they will use or avoid technology.
Findings 59 is edited by Poppy Porter, Copy Editor Linda Lambert, Advertising Editor Tamizan Savill and designed by Ian Scaife.
Published by The Association for Contemporary Jewellery.
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