Description:

Artists and designers constantly negotiate and renegotiate assemblages of entangled relationships within digital and analog methods of making. Object-sketch is a tool where ideas and processes meet and share knowledge. To unpack a thought or temporal moment in conjunction with others, to walk around them and experience the entanglements and relationships with the aspiration towards the sharing of knowledge and practice. Object-Sketch explores this negotiation with specific reference to the fabrication of 3D printed ceramic objects.

I imagine a practice where our digital experiences are physical and woven events. The binary that divides a material prototype from a pencil sketch, from a coded definition, becomes blurred. There is a plasticity that results from the flow of information through a toolchain, whereby simple interactions give rise to complex forms and narratives.

As an exhibition, this version of the generative interface focuses on exploring the democratisation of moments within a maker's practice to share knowledge. Through subtle material-based interaction points that take the form of 3d printed nodes and coded splines of rope act as movable live inputs connected to the code of a grasshopper script constantly sketching potential forms for fabrication.

The translation of gestures and movement, into coded scripts and splines are defined by the material and process experiences of a practitioner. Participants are invited to ponder between balancing the composition of input(s) and the conversation created with code and object.

Special thanks to James Charlton for his help in the early stages of this project.