LOS ANGELES — SIGGRAPH, the annual interdisciplinary education experience and conference on the latest computer graphics and interactive techniques, is showing 15 curated pieces as part of the show’s Art Gallery.
This collection of artwork, featuring pieces from independent artists to students and professors, takes on the theme of "Hybrid Craft."
The 15 works come from skilled makers who use computational design tools in their craft, integrating advanced technologies with traditional making processes. This unique showcase demonstrates the multidirectional exchange of skilled makers, and highlights artists who use technology as part of their creative palate. By integrating computer-enabled designs and objects with traditional crafts such as tools, instruments and bowl-making, jewelry, artwork and design, these artists combine the best of new and traditional techniques to create their pieces.
SIGGRAPH 2015 Art Gallery highlights include:
3D Printing and Jewelry Making
Yael Friedman, Independent Artist
Combining 3D-printed puzzles with wearable jewelry to create puzzle rings, these pieces are not only meant to be seen, but also to be touched and played.
The Hunt for Butterflies
Peter Schmitt, Independent Artist
This work uses CAD, CNC machine tools, wood, plastic, metal, electronics, and mechanics to "explore the question of how computational methods, machine tools and fabrication resources can be used outside the paradigm of application, function, purpose and profit."
Neo-Industrial Biography, Glass Working and Re-Configurable Toolmaking
Tavs Jorgensen, Autonomatic Research Group
Using a free-fall slumping technique, the artist created a bowl by heating glass disks and letting gravity force the glass against pins positioned in a matrix of holes in the tooling device. The tooling systems in this project were developed almost entirely with digital design tools, while the actual use of the final system is completely analog.