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34. What does the term ‘3D computer technologies’ mean to you?
That was one of the reasons I did it just so I could get something in my hand. I
teach at Farnham ceramics, metalwork, jewellery and the applied arts and I’m
doing a new course and there is a new guy called Darren Stokes who is really
interested in creating people with transitional skills so that people can leave
college and not have to get a job in McDonalds. They can find something to do
and can apply their skills too. I’m working on showing him visualisation
techniques Photoshop Illustrator and Zion [?], this terrible Mac modelling
technique. So we’re working away and they saying; “This is fantastic, different
ways to show our work”, but I want to feel it in my hand. I want to see it. The
same as everything else, it’s learning for doing. You have to make the mistake to
understand. The reason I use technology is because my work demands it. Some
people don’t think these pieces are made with technology, they look very organic
and you can relate to them and there is familiarity of the birds moving…
35. Name up to 5 practitioners that you would identify as exemplary
users of 3D computer technologies.
I would say Front, even though I know stuff about them and don’t particularly
like their attitudes to what they do and they have got a very good team of people
behind them to do what they do – hence the name Front. I think they’ve had to
be creative and had the initial idea and it’s very clever for them to say ‘this is
what we want to do, how do we go about it, there’s someone over here’…I think
that’s a very good way to do it and the work is very poetic. Kenji’s work has a
nice balance between tradition and technology. I would hope myself. There’s not
many people out there. I can’t remember his name, but he’s huge just now –
makes very mechanical art. Sculpture. He’s 24 or 25 Conrad Shawcross. Yes,
one of my mates did the designing for him. It’s very interesting work –
annoyingly good! David Goodwin, a jeweller who won the New Designers prize
a few years ago and makes use of amazing little intricate jewellery pieces.
There’s also another jeweller who graduated from the RCA this year, Jo
someone, I can’t remember her surname. She pixelates bracelets and then
animates them and you can stop it at any point. It’s not crude, but there are pros
and cons about the work. I think it’s a starting point and could go so much
further. I like the bespoke nature of the animated products. Ron Arad.
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