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It could mean a variety of things, 3D CAD software, 3D input devices and 3D
output devices. To me it means someone is not being very specific.
35. Name up to 5 practitioners that you would identify as exemplary
users of 3D computer technologies.
Tavs Jorgenson, Drummond Masterton, Gordon Burnett, Industreal group,
Materialise group.
36. In terms of discipline where do you do you locate your practice?
Differing projects I undertake sit in different contexts, but predominantly within
designer/maker practice.
37. How would you identify the community of practice or discipline
that you most closely relate to?
No answer.
38. How would you define the relationship between your work and
its audience?
Again this differs from project to project, sometimes as active
client/commissioner, sometimes as an active collaborator, sometimes as
relatively passive consumer, others just as a passive viewer.
39. Do you think there is a trend towards an emerging, hybrid
discipline?
There are designer maker using digital technologies crossing boundaries, but
without an underlying understanding of the materials and processes they are
using beyond the digital realm this can result in work which lacks quality and
deep understanding of the field.
40. If so, what role if any does technology play in this?
Digital technologies do open up the potential for new practices through the
creation of data which can be used for a variety of applications and to control
widely differing forms of output device. The ability to transmit data quickly and
accurately also opens up new forms of working practice. However for me the
useful, interesting, successful and/or convincing applications of digital
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