Assignment Description

1. Make hand sketches of imagined hybrid objects.

Such hybridity may be born out of

• digital/physical materials, or
• organic/inorganic materials, or
• manual/machine processes (efficiency/expressivity), or
• intentions of preservation/transformation of an object, or
• playfulness/seriousness of materiality and output.

2. Find a few artists/designers who use such hybrid processes/techniques in their work.  Comment on the ideation/making process of one such person.

Assignment Prompts:

1. Is hybridity a spectrum or a hard boundary in making your imagined object ? Where may boundary start/end for manual/machine, organic/inorganic etc.?

2. Can you visualize the machine and manual path (or organic/inorganic material boundaries) if you were to make this object?

Reference for machine/manual toolpaths (e.g. in Free-D):

3. How may relegation of some control to machine processes affect traditional craft?

Sketch

Artist

Chester artist Ann Goddard’s art combines the Fine Art and Fine Craft disciplines of sculpture and textiles. Often working with opposing materials, Ann juxtaposes textile elements such as felted fibres, fabric and stitch with harder components like concrete, wood, metal or natural materials. Subjects explored within her work reference the boundaries between genres, between art and craft, between men and women’s work, and those in the landscape. She creates mixed media constructions, assemblages and small installations.

Ann Goddard