Day 5: (Wed Feb 2, Week 3) Soft Art and Design

Notes for 2022-02-02.

New Assignments

1. New assignment, due Sunday night: Exercise: Infusing Art with Technology

Agenda

1. Review of art and design search.

2. Discussion.
   
   

3. Mid-class break.
   
   

4. Brief overview of silicone fabrication, using product videos from Smooth-On:

   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzomvhHd9vo&t=18s

   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLhWWRaBR78&t=66s

   • more: Smooth-On tutorials, Smooth-On YouTube channel

   • discussion of mold-making terminology

   • show and tell
     
     

5. Breakouts. When does technological media improve an artwork? (Didn’t happen.)

   1. Quickly choose a project from today’s review (not your own).

   2. Apply why/how laddering to identify a root question and possible alternative realization using technological media.

   3. Identify the ways in which the technology in that execution is integral and necessary and ways in which it is not.

6. Discussion.