l'Artisan Électronique

While industry and craftsmanship are positioned as polar opposites, they would be more accurately represented as volatile points in a matrix of manual, mechanical, and electrical forces. Wheel-thrown pottery, for example, though now considered an artisanal skill, developed as a partial automation of coil pottery by the third millennium, B.C., making the production of small clay vessels more efficient. If industry is characterized by the displacement of advanced operations from hands to machines, then handicraft is defined by its retention of fine motor skills mastered over years of practice. In l’Artisan Électronique, designers Unfold and Tim Knapen investigate the intersection between craft, industry, and digital making, avoiding easy categorisation.

date

March 14th 2010
Read more...




Original full scale installation at Z33
fig. 01

Original full scale installation at Z33

Throwing a digital vase
fig. 02

Throwing a digital vase

Virtual Pottery Wheel
fig. 03

Virtual Pottery Wheel

Virtual Pottery Wheel-interface
fig. 04

Virtual Pottery Wheel
interface

Virtual Pottery Wheel-sequence
fig. 05

Virtual Pottery Wheel
sequence

Throwing a digital vase
fig. 06

Throwing a digital vase

Database projection
fig. 07

Database projection

Ceramic 3d printer
fig. 08

Ceramic 3d printer

Vase
fig. 09

Vase

Cabinet with 3d printed ceramics
fig. 10

Cabinet with 3d printed ceramics

Set of vases
fig. 11

Set of vases

Duotone vase
fig. 12

Duotone vase

CBK Rotterdam-Another Dimension
fig. 13

CBK Rotterdam
Another Dimension

The Israel Museum-Curious Minds
fig. 14

The Israel Museum
Curious Minds

Museum of Arts and Design, New York-Out of Hand
fig. 15

Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Out of Hand

Abu Dhabi Art
fig. 16

Abu Dhabi Art