Hybrid Reassemblage: An Exploration of Craft, Digital Fabrication and Artifact Uniqueness

Digital fabrication, and especially 3D printing, is an emerging field that is opening up new possibilities for craft, art and design. The process, however, has important limitations; in particular, digitally designed artifacts are intrinsically reproducible. In stark contrast, traditional craft arti...

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Autores principales: Buechley, Leah, Zoran, Amit
Otros Autores: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:en_US
Publicado: MIT Press 2013
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78845
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description Digital fabrication, and especially 3D printing, is an emerging field that is opening up new possibilities for craft, art and design. The process, however, has important limitations; in particular, digitally designed artifacts are intrinsically reproducible. In stark contrast, traditional craft artifacts are individually produced by hand. The authors combine digital fabrication and craft in their work involving object destruction and restoration: an intentionally broken crafted artifact and a 3D printed restoration. The motivation is not to restore the original work but to transform it into a new object in which both the destructive event and the restoration are visible and the re-assembled object functions as a memorial.
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spelling mit-1721.1/788452022-09-23T13:05:34Z Hybrid Reassemblage: An Exploration of Craft, Digital Fabrication and Artifact Uniqueness Buechley, Leah Zoran, Amit Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Zoran, Amit Shlomo Buechley, Leah Digital fabrication, and especially 3D printing, is an emerging field that is opening up new possibilities for craft, art and design. The process, however, has important limitations; in particular, digitally designed artifacts are intrinsically reproducible. In stark contrast, traditional craft artifacts are individually produced by hand. The authors combine digital fabrication and craft in their work involving object destruction and restoration: an intentionally broken crafted artifact and a 3D printed restoration. The motivation is not to restore the original work but to transform it into a new object in which both the destructive event and the restoration are visible and the re-assembled object functions as a memorial. Council for the Arts at MIT Objet Geometries, Inc. 2013-05-07T20:45:09Z 2013-05-07T20:45:09Z 2013-02 2011-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0024-094X 1530-9282 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78845 Zoran, Amit, and Leah Buechley. “Hybrid Reassemblage: An Exploration of Craft, Digital Fabrication and Artifact Uniqueness.” Leonardo 46.1 (2013): 4–10. © 2013 The MIT Press https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8791-4213 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00477 Leonardo Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press MIT Press
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