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These practitioners represent a spectrum of practices from across disciplines
and from a wide range of approaches to their use of computer-based design and
fabrication technologies. This includes both emerging practitioners and wellestablished,
exemplary practitioners. At the time of the survey 49 16 of them
(28%) had had previous contact with the researcher. 16 (28%) had no direct
previous contact with the researcher but had participated in the artist-led
international survey shows from the contextual review (see section 2.3). The
remaining 25 practitioners (44%) were selected from the group of crossdisciplinary
exemplary practitioners from the contextual review. Of those
approached 29 (50.9%) responded. However, 2 practitioners (3.5%) responded
by typing random letters into the response fields (spoiled). The total number of
responses was therefore 27 (47.4%) of those contacted. 7 practitioners (12.3%)
of those invited to contribute to the survey later participated in the ‘Perimeters,
Boundaries and Borders’ exhibition. 4 (7%) of these responded to the survey.
At the time they responded to the survey this exhibition had not yet been
announced.
An objective of this survey was to establish a baseline of contemporary practice
against which to frame the context for the wider study. It was expected that
through this means the researcher might gain an opportunity to probe critical
language and criteria developed within the field of practice. Coding this data
was accomplished both electronically and by hand on printed versions of the
survey responses. Categories and patterns were identified and the frequency
with which these arose was recorded.
3.4 Development of a curatorial framework
The researcher developed a curatorial framework for a themed exhibition
exploring hybrid art and design practice using computer-based design and
fabrication tools. The objective for this exhibition was to be the identification of
new modes of action and enquiry capable of shaping and qualifying the
direction that artists, designers and architects are taking with computer-based
technologies. The exhibition was to contain a mixture of existing works
(selected from an open call process) and new works (from practitioners selected
and invited to participate by the curatorial team in response to the curatorial
49 27/02/06 – 24/03/06.
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