Autonomatic
FRIDAY 28th JANUARY 2005
A Falmouth College of Arts symposium on the use of digital technology in
designing and making three-dimensional forms.
A growing number of designers and makers are extending their autonomous
control over the process of designing and manufacturing products through
the creation of digital information, and use of computer numerically
controlled machinery. Their often idiosyncratic and sometimes subversive
use of these technologies is resulting in the creation of new forms and
processes. This innovative work challenges our cultural understanding of
the parameters of hand and mass-manufactured production.
Speakers will include Olivier Geoffroy from Unto this Last, a small company
who make furniture using CNC technology and sell directly from their
workshop in Brick Lane, London; Lionel Theodore Dean and Derek Hales of the
Future Factories project, University of Huddersfield; Stephen Bottomley,
Jeweller based at Sheffield Hallam University and Dave Goodwin, Jeweller,
based at the Royal College of Art who will be talking about Digital Craft;
and Drummond Masterton, Research Assistant in 3D Digital Production at FCA.
The event will involve a tour of the digital technologies available in The
Design Centre and launch the Autonamatic 3D Digital Design Competition.
Autonomatic costs £50 including lunch.
Autonamatic is an FCA 3D Digital Production Research Cluster event. For
more information please contact: Vic Machon, Business Relations, Design
Centre, Falmouth College of Arts, Tremough Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10
9EZ
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