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24. Would you be interested in being in another show of this kind?
Yes, definitely if the opportunity arose.
25. Would you be interested in future opportunities with Fast-uk?
Yes.
26. When did you first make use of computer technologies in your
work?
I’d say second year at college - 2000. Just doing simple things in Photoshop
making 3D sculptural shapes not knowing what they were for or what they
would do. Then visualised them in all kinds of scales and all different scenarios,
as products and as installation type things.
27. What formal training have you have had with computer
technologies?
Self taught as an under graduate. Teaching other people, we had one computer
in the department and I was the computer technician because I was the only one
who wasn’t afraid to push a few buttons and have a root round if something
went wrong. We did a project for Dell in my fourth year so they would give us
some computers. Less than no formal training in my under grad and then I did
my Masters which I thought would teach me maths. A bit of basic programming
(C++) and being around computer technicians if something went wrong I would
make them explain what was going on, rather than just letting them fix it for me.
28. How would you describe how you make use of computer
technologies in your practice (e.g. concept development, design-toorder,
fabrication, pre-visualisation, prototyping, etc?)
Already answered.
29. How have computer technologies had an impact on your
practice?
They have allowed me to do things that I want to do and did not think were
possible. They have allowed me to explore some means of expression like bits of
animation which I have had a bit of an interest in but to be able to link that in a
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