Day 5: (Wed Jan 31, Week 3) Soft Art and Design

Notes for 2024-01-31.

New Assignments

1. New assignment, due Monday 9AM: Exercise: Infusing Art with Technology. Please submit to Exercise 5 Shared Folder.

Agenda

1. Review of art and design search.

   • Kinetic Art (textbook)

   • Changi Airport

   • additive folding [R63]

     • additive folding videos

   • facial expressions (video)

   • Dove Bradshaw, Plain Air

   • Cecilia Judge (home site)

     • Cecilia Judge on artstor

     • Cecelia Judge, Pound of Love

     • Gilded Guts

     • Gilded Body

   • Deeplocal, Google Flowers

   • https://crochetcoralreef.org/

   • recycled plastic inflatables [R4]

     • https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/therms-up-diy-inflatables/

   • https://3dprint.com/93771/soft-robotics-exo-biote/

   • jamSheets [R37], https://vimeo.com/73164578

   • https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/12/lian-mask-artificial-intelligence-jann-choy-video/

2. Discussion.
   
   

3. Mid-class break.
   
   

4. Breakouts. When does technological media improve an artwork?

   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.
      
      

5. Discussion.