Liam
Did you recieve my last Email? The rest of the responses to your request
seem
to have recieved an answer.
David Prytherch at UCE seems to be working in the same sort of area
as you, but with an emphasis on computers, sculpture and tactile
response (I
think).
All technologies/tools both extend and limit how you engage with the
world
(both mentally and physically). The employment of computers in designer
maker or craft practice should not be considered as replacement for
previous
tools (or a simulation of them), but an additional tool which creates
the
potential for new working methods (and even methodologies) and these are
often integrated into a set of more traditional set of working methods.
Yes there will be developments which will change the interface with
computers
and change the way makers employ them, but there is use of computers
occuring
now. See Woolner and Adams (1996?) survey for the Crafts Council
concerning
the employment of computers in designer maker practice.
Justin
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