We’re in the FT!

- more specifically  in the ‘How to Spend it’ weekend suppliment to The FInancial Times, Sarturday the 17/10/2009 

Emma Crichton-Millers’ article on digital craft titled: “Look – no hands” feature images of both Drummond and Tavs’ work and a description of the work of Autonomatic in general

 

Autonomatic visiting lecture at University of Plymouth

Tavs kicked of a rather busy autumn schedule of visiting lectures about the work at Autonomatic with a talk to the 3D Design Department in Plymouth.

More on the 3D course at University of Plymouth here:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=8039

And here:

http://www.3ddesign.org.uk/

 

Other venues on Tavs’ list of invited lectures includes:

The world design Congress, Beijing
The 5th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Estonia
Digital Design Art, De Montfort University, Leicester
University Wales Institute Cardiff
Open University, Milton Keynes
Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham University
Nottingham Trent University

 

- That’s probably enough for 2009!

Ceramic Westerwald Prize symposium

In September Justin presented a paper on post industrial manufacturing at the Westerwald museum in Germany as part of the ‘Cool Britain’ symposium series which are being run in conjunction with the International Ceramic Westerwald Prize.

http://www.keramikmuseum.de/index_eng.html

Making Futures Conference

Katie and Justin presented a paper at the recent ‘Making Futures’ conference organised by Plymouth College of Art and Design.

http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/index.php?page=Conference-Home&pag_id=2

‘The purpose of ‘Making Futures’ is to improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are practiced in relation to significant and new emerging agendas relating to global environmental and sustainability issues’.

Their full paper; ‘Developments in Post Industrial Manufacturing Systems and its Implications for Craft and Sustainability’ should be available for download in November from the conference website.

Bespoke project update

The bespoke project now has a website http://www.bespokeproject.org/ where the events and activities surrounding this project can be followed.

Autonomatic work with Bath Spa University

In July Justin worked with Nick Lees, a senior lecturer in ceramics at Bath Spa University in order to investigate the potential for 3D CAD and RP technologies to be integrated into Nick’s creative practice http://www.artbathspa.com/research/ceramics/nick_lees.htm

 Four days were spent modelling and then physically prototyping a range of spiral forms which are to be used in the process of creating plaster ‘cores’ for Nick’s sculptural pieces.

 The results at the end of this short experimental period are currently being tested by Nick and we look forward to seeing the resulting final works.

An example of Nick's sculptural work

Drummond in Rapid News

Drummond’s work has gained recognition in an article featured on the Rapid News website, see link for more details.

http://www.rapidtoday.com/

Physicality and HCI 2009 @ Churchill College Cambridge

Autonomatic contributed to the ‘Physicality 2009’ workshop in the shape of a paper presentation by Tavs Jorgensen.

Tavs also showed artefacts to illustrate how his research into new types of computer interfaces can be used for practical design application.

The ‘Physicality 2009’ workshop was part of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009) conference held at Churchill College Cambridge from 1^st to the 5^th of September 2009.

The workshop was that last in a series of 3, which have been funded under the ‘Design in the 21^st century’ scheme. The workshops focused on the use of non – GUI (graphical user interface) Computer Interaction and was a collaborative project between University of Lancaster and University Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC).

The workshop also included presentations from Eirk Geelhoed from HP Labs, Mark Evans from Loughborough University and John Bird, Open University. The workshop concluded with an idea and prototype generation session were a number of non-GUI concepts were explored. 

The HCI conference also included an open house event at the nearby Microsoft Research Lab (in the inevitable named ‘William Gates’ Building). Among the project presented her was that ‘Second Light’ by the Microsoft research team , a live 3D holographic display and a DIY approach to an interactive table from London Knowledge Lab.

Proceedings and further details available here: http://www.physicality.org and here:  http://www.hci2009.org/

 

Tavs Jorgensen talk @ Designed in Devon network Evening

You don’t need to be a member, any interested creative can turn up for the network evening at The Black Box Studio at Exeter’s Phonix Friday the 28th of August.

Details Here:

http://designedindevon.ning.com/forum/topics/creative-networking-in-exeter-1

Mike Eden and Ann Marie Shillito talk and demo at UCF

Following an invitation from Autonomatic, Mike Eden and Ann Marie Shillito delivered an inspiring afternoon of talks and a ‘hands on – try out’ of the latest budget haptic devise, The Falcon from Novint.

Following his MPhil at the Royal College of Art, Mike Eden has had a whirlwind of success with a collaboration with the French technology company, Axiatec. His work is based on using Rapid Prototyping technology in conjunction with unique materials developed by Axiatec. Mike showed samples of these materials include an amazing infiltrate that convents the standard Zcorp RP material to a refractory body which can be exposed to temperatures up to 1500º C.

- more info on Mike’s work here: http://www.edenceramics.co.uk/

Ann Marie Shillito is a research fellow in the Department of Design and Applied Art at Edinburgh College of Art and manager and researcher for ‘Tacitus’. She is a designer maker in the fields of jewellery and metalwork and by maintaining an experimental approach, research has become an integral part of her work.

More info on Ann Marie’s research project here:

http://www.anarkik3d.co.uk

http://www.anarkikangels.co.uk