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14.0 Appendix VI: Practitioner 5 interview
1. Where did you see the call for PBB?
I was on the internet, some blog website.
2. Why did you apply for PBB?
It was quite close to the deadline when I applied, so it was a bit last minute
putting the application together, but the way it was described, the brief and
description of the exhibition, really summed up what I was doing. It was quite
nice to know there were other people trying to do the same thing. That’s why I
applied. From my education in 3D design, then going into such a traditional
department with RCA, it’s quite stuck in intimates and stuck in its history and
it’s thinking its better and it’s not sometimes. So coming out of there producing
pieces using art technology and going back and doing fine arts in material form,
sometimes you feel a bit lonely. It’s a bit weird, but sometimes and there’s noone
to understand you, so you might not get these exhibitions, especially with
the glass work I produce. Some people can’t understand the difficulty in going
from technology into material because some programs don’t…well…if you’re
making animation, or a piece it’s quite different; you’re creating forms which are
beyond your imagination. I think this exhibition helped make me understand
that other people are doing the same, or trying to push a hybrid practice.
3. What about the brief made you think your work was appropriate?
I think it was the convergence between art and technology because that
statement is very simple, but sums it all up. That’s what it is; the coming
together of two different disciplines and all of a sudden you’re making this new
hybrid practice, as you say, but then ‘hybrid practice’ is such a general term. It’s
more ideal sometimes to call it ‘digital craft’ depending what discipline you’re
coming from. It’ll be interesting to see how it gets defined, because it might be
this area that never has a definition. I think ‘convergence’ is a nice term and
that’s what, from the highlights that’s what the brief was.
4. What did you expect to get out of the exhibition?
It was a network for me. I’m 26 pretty young into this art, design, craft world
and it was just having a platform for showing my work.
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