Day 6: (Mon Feb 6, Week 4) Art, Design, and Technology

Notes for 2023-02-06.

New Assignments

New assignment due Wednesday: please prepare a brief pitch for a specific project you’d like to develop, either refining one of your previous ideas or choosing a new one. Please include at least one detailed sketch showing a visual representation and be prepared to explain your idea.

Agenda

1. Comments on course direction.

   • clarifying design or art objectives

   • narrowing to specific technical experiments

   • pair projects, choosing partners on Wednesday

2. Review of art, design, and technology exercise.

3. Question: what’s the right first test?

4. Discussion.
   
   

5. Mid-class break.
   
   

6. Discussion of class resources and fabrication approaches.

   • Silicone Rubber

   • Casting Equipment

   • are there other fabrication strategies you have encountered in the readings?

7. 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