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Manifesto draft 1 and ideas model

Studio presentation today of first draft of manifesto and ideas model. From the manifesto:

“Braided streams” or “To spin an urban yarn”
The manual :: the technological
Where the two have met most profitably the results has been times of tremendous progress. eg. the printing press allowed precious hand inscribed works to become available to a far wider audience.
We are now in a period of time where technology has been adopted, integrated and assimilated into manual art processes to such an extent that it is threatening to burst from the inside out. At the same time, there is a concurrent resistance by the in-place generation of tutors to embrace the possibilities of technology when appropriate and require its rejection when neccessary.
The art school of the future will protect those manual art processes that are threatened by the technological invasion whilst supporting the use of technology for art. Those heavy, dirty, hard manual processes will be celebrated and valued.

Images of the ideas model, which uses raw wool, denim, timber, plastic and stainless steel, will follow. The idea behind the model was to represent the 'spinning' of a creative product from the raw material that is the stuff of Leith.

posted by Chris @ 6:42 pm