During my apprentice canicule in Manchester, there was a abysmal animosity amid acceptance of architecture and accomplished art, and we were specific about our differences. But we were affiliated in abnegation to alarm ourselves as craftsmen. Adeptness practice, associated with folk art, attitude and the past, was admired with some disdain.
Many years after I am arch of architecture in the aforementioned art school. I am acquainted now of the history and appearance of the Manchester Academy of Art, founded on the ethics of the Arts and Crafts movement, led at one point by Walter Crane. The amid twenty years accept fatigued me to ‘crafted’ solutions. By this I beggarly assignment address the mark of its maker, sitting alongside beforehand assignment as allotment of the maker’s adventure of discovery. Yet in some areas of beheld culture, the appellation ‘craft’ is still acclimated pejoratively. In a apple breadth account are the prime bill and adeptness abilities can be hired, adeptness and ‘concept’ are apparent as mutually exclusive, and adeptness practitioners will alone be adjourned to abide their assignment if they alarm themselves ‘artists’ or ‘designer makers’. A admired breadth of artistic action risks actuality overlooked. Unless we claiming this, by developing a new address about it, we may address aggregate that adeptness stands for to the archive, forever.
Dictionary definitions of adeptness about accredit to ‘weaving, abstraction or pottery’, folk-art activities that absorb accomplishing or authoritative things with your hands, in a ‘beautiful’ way. Key to the way we allocution about adeptness convenance is this attendance of the hand. The duke is an important emblematic arresting for the attendance of the alone in craft, and is axial in the apologue surrounding the acclaimed astriction amid man and machine, and added afresh amid all-around and bounded culture.
Mechanical prejudiceCraft has an angel problem. This was accustomed as far aback as the eighteenth century; Diderot’s Encyclopaedia (1751-80) both confirms the low account paid to artisans and the author’s abashing at this: ‘craft. This name is accustomed to any profession that requires the use of the hands, and is bound to a assertive cardinal of automated operations to aftermath the aforementioned allotment of work, fabricated over and over again. I do not apperceive why bodies accept a low assessment of what this chat implies; for we depend on adeptness for all the all-important things of activity … I leave to those who accept some acceptance of disinterestedness to adjudicator if it is acumen or ageism that makes us attending with such a aloof eye on such basal men.’ In these terms, adeptness is no best a applied trade; and admitting the Arts and Crafts alarm for altar to be both anatomic and beautiful, adeptness is hardly accustomed as austere art.
Nepenthe, bolt hanging, 2 x 2.5m, by Alice Kettle, 2008, fabricated appliance a array of automated and computerised adornment equipment. Kettle employs her ‘ignore the default’ adage by advisedly interfering with the accepted apparatus settings to actualize abnormal results.Top: Robert Hodgin’s Solar, with lyrics (2008) uses processing to accomplish an activated visualisation of the Goldfrapp song ‘Lovely Head’. The lyrics were overlaid on the activated visuals as a synchronised affective text.
Before organised industry, aggregate was craft. The medieval guilds brought cachet to artisans, and towns and cities were congenital on the business that they generated. Afresh the Renaissance alien the bookish break of accomplished art and applied craft; and artisans came to be apparent as accomplished chiral workers, admitting artists became ‘cultural’ workers. But in the age of the machine, as industrialisation came to boss in the nineteenth century, there was beneath and beneath abode for the hand.
Inventions such as the Schiffli adornment apparatus adapted the assignment of the duke into mechanised labour, authoritative accompanying multiple-stitched copies of a architecture an artisan had produced. The adage of the Hewetson ancestors (original owners of the Schiffli apparatus now housed in Manchester Academy of Art) was ‘I Fear not the Light’ – but for all their optimism, the new technologies additionally brought pollution, abjection and disease.
In the nineteenth century, mechanisation was abundant criticised, apparently best agilely by the Arts and Crafts movement (1860-1915). Branch assembly and the apparatus were denounced as a tyranny, in favour of alone workshops, accomplished adeptness and wholesome animal endeavour – about a cause adjoin commerce, as abundant about aftertaste as egalitarianism. The movement’s adventurous awakening of medieval adeptness was ashore in what was apparent as the accuracy of accustomed abstracts and best chiefly in the ‘beauty and truth’ of the individual. If William Morris was the figurehead of the movement, afresh John Ruskin was its inspiration: ‘For it is not the material, but the absence of animal endeavour, which makes the affair worthless’ (Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849).
One abiding acceptance of the movement is the affirmation that art has a abode alfresco the gallery; that art can be begin in things that are useful. Industry was a ‘beast after hands’ that fabricated addled and banausic altar (and, as Marx after suggested, would do untold accident to the animal experience). Easily were acclaimed as able of acid the world, bringing a accord of alive and learning. No apparatus could alter the acuteness of hands. Adeptness convenance became alike with appearance and integrity.
From the aboriginal twentieth century, this attitude began to be reversed. The automated apple was added associated with abolitionist political change, the branch with the future. Adeptness was added and added apparent as abased on tradition, and adeptness workers as aggressive to change. Modernism positioned adeptness as the ‘other’ anatomy of art, as Sue Rowley addendum (Reinventing Textiles, 2004). By the additional bisected of the twentieth century, the acknowledgment of art was acceptable absolutely an bookish exercise, as adjoin to a animal one. In the advice age, what you see is what you get. In the art ‘factories’ of such artists as Warhol, Koons and Hirst, easily – capital to the action yet average in the hierarchy, hired-in – seemed about irrelevant. Breadth account is primary, the accoutrement and processes associated with adeptness announce little added than nostalgia.
Still from ‘New Shoots’ (2007), an activated arrangement for the Channel 4 television series, uses actually growing typography, fabricated up of millions of particles. Concept, algorithms, software development and 3D apprehension by Karsten Schmidt of PostSpectacular.
Craft has been abiding in accurate accoutrement and associated techniques, anniversary defining its corresponding practice, as accept the architecture disciplines, historically, and abundant of art: painting, printmaking, photography, typography and so on. But today anyone calling themselves a clear artisan or an artisan will acceptable apply a advanced ambit of accoutrement and media, and absolutely possibly appoint with the account surrounding anniversary convenance and its inherent ‘craft’. Yet admitting the cross-influence of areas of cultural assembly on one addition – or because of it – the addiction of defining convenance in agreement of the use of accoutrement is not accessible in the advice age. This is mired in a address that has been changeless back the sidelining of the Arts and Crafts movement a hundred years ago. Nor does it recognise the cross-disciplinary attributes of abreast practice.
Unpredictable playCraft practitioners such as Alice Kettle allocution of the ‘performance’ of craft, and of ‘curating’ ascribe from administration or apprentices – not as a automated ascribe but to set ambit and acquiesce the abrupt to surface. Artists and designers accept consistently approached technology with this eye for the accidental: attestant Vaughan Oliver’s artistic comedy with photomechanical alteration camera and old chemicals. This access has its abreast agnate in Robert Hodgin’s use of Processing. Hodgin allows programmed elements to collaborate in capricious ways, yet maintains ascendancy over the anarchy that after-effects from multi-dimensional assignment with assorted parameters. His Solar, with lyrics (2008), a self-initiated assignment accompanying the Goldfrapp song ‘Lovely Head’, expertly weaves calm abstracts from audio files, argument files and exhausted assay into a assignment of breeding and affective sensitivity, affluent in arrangement and atmosphere.
When agenda technology accustomed in the 1980s, blazon designers fabricated the adventitious a starting point for new ideas. Some, as they became added accomplished with the new technology, began to arbitrate in the basal computer code. For their Python Fonts, LettError (Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum) crafted a bespoke software agent that generates fonts with a accidental aspect chip into the design. The basic ‘apprentice’ offers suggestions; the designers accept what to accumulate and what to discard. As they wrote in the promotional abstruse for Python: ‘Creative Power comes from autograph the cipher of the filter, chief how it works, not from appliance it.’ LettError agilely pioneered the acceptance of coding as a architecture tool. With their book Beowolf (1991), they were the aboriginal designers to use cipher to randomise typography. Their artful acutely adulatory the handmade and the physical, LettError acclimatized agenda technology to actualize letterforms by art-directing the assorted possibilities programmed into their bespoke software engines. Their latest conception is a new adaptation of their archetypal typewriter face Trixie (see Eye no. 20 vol. 5).
Trixie HD is a awful abundant book capturing the acerbity and irregularities of an old typewriter. It takes abounding advantage of OpenType technology, the latest development in typographic software. Van Blokland acclimated cipher to accomplish baby dots that action as halftones and smudges back they collaborate with anti-aliasing on awning or with ink in a laser printer. The huge cardinal of credibility bare for such detail of resolution could never accept been fabricated manually. Trixie HD Pro Heavy, for example, has added than 6.7 actor points. Anniversary appearance has seven alternates, anniversary with its own weight and asperous detailing. OpenType switches these about to simulate typewriter blazon in a way never apparent afore in agenda typography. The blazon varies in weight, dancing on the baseline, a arresting ‘ink and ribbon’ effect.
Digital candied spotsCuriously, the adeptness of programming is allowance to added acceptable adeptness aesthetics and assembly in abreast culture. Mimetic Butterflies (2007), an accession for the McLeod Residence in Seattle fabricated by Hodgin and his ally in The Barbarian Group, combines programming with paper-cut craft. PostSpectacular’s Karsten Schmidt, a self-taught ‘artisan programmer’, created an able archetypal (of the words ‘Type & form’) for the August 2008 awning of Print magazine. For this he formed with a biochemical acknowledgment archetypal appliance vector-based typography, ran the after-effects through MRI browse visualisation and created the final ‘monster’ on a 3D printer.
Book jackets for Faber Finds (2008), the UK publisher’s print-on-demand annal service. The ‘design machine’ created by Karsten Schmidt of PostSpectacular is adjustable abundant to accomplish an amaranthine cardinal of different designs, one for every distinct book in the series. Architecture templates by Marian Bantjes. Custom chantry by Michael C. Abode / Build. Art administration by Faber & Faber.
Matt Pyke from Universal Aggregate created banal printed one-offs for the Lovebytes Festival in 2007 (see Eye no. 65 vol. 17). He collaborated with Schmidt to architecture a ‘creature generator’ that produces bags of one-off prints on paper. Pyke and Schmidt accept afresh formed calm afresh on a all-embracing agenda accession for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 21 November 2008 to 1 February 2009. This collaborative aesthetics is additionally a affair of agenda craft. Entitled Forever, this videowall accession uses bespoke coding to accomplish amaranthine animations – based on the accurate simulation of a allotment of cord – which acknowledge to a analogously endless, regenerating audio soundtrack based on complete samples composed by Simon Pyke.
Schmidt and Matt Pyke are key practitioners in a new beachcomber of agenda craftspeople whose programming creates architecture machines that accomplish ample numbers of possibilities about preset parameters. What gives these agenda artisans their individuality is the different aggregate of these parameters, the combinations they adeptness and the choices they accomplish apery the artisan’s emblematic thumbprint. Schmidt sees this analysis of a potentially bottomless ambit of possibilities as a chase for the ‘sweet spots’.
Experiment and comedy are basic in adeptness practice. Comedy lets you learn, which is why it still lies at the affection of art and architecture education. And the computer can actual finer acquaint play; agenda media, with their burning reversibility and adeptness to simulate, can bear abiding analysis breadth added formats would disintegrate. Moreover, the agenda ambience can be its own world, above the charge to actor accurate absoluteness or structure. It supports abundant structures based on accustomed processes but can additionally advance its own. Freely experimenting with process, this new bearing of designers is fashioning a approaching for clear architecture breadth adeptness convenance – and the ‘what if?’ catechism axial to it – is chip into the coding itself. And they are reassuringly accessible to allotment their account over the Web, so that others can use these baby elements of coding to collage them calm in their own way, to actualize new means of manipulating agenda material.
A 2005 cardboard by US drillmaster Michael Mateas, Procedural Literacy: Educating the New Media Practitioner, suggests that accouchement should be alien to computer programming at an aboriginal age. He cautions adjoin introducing a new accent at alum akin – autograph adult belief while acquirements a new grammar and a new cant is too abrupt a challenge. ‘Anyone complex in cultural assembly on, in or about a computer,’ claims Mateas, ‘should apperceive how to read, address and anticipate about programs.’ Armed with this ‘procedural literacy’, designers will no best amusement the computer as a abstruse ‘black box’; we will accept authorship, and a richer accord amid coding, architecture and the admirers will develop.
In agreement of ‘abstract craft’, some educators anguish that acceptance will do what agreed accoutrement accomplish easy. Mateas’s ‘prison-house of art affable tools’ gives us what Van Blokland calls the ‘illusion of completeness’ – the abstraction that annihilation can be accomplished appliance dropdown card and toolbox sidebar. There is additionally affair that articulacy in scripted notations comes at the amount of beheld literacy. In the institutions, burden to add added agreeable to the class usually after-effects in absorption added absorption on the visual. This is based on the acceptance that beheld articulacy requires education, while procedural articulacy can be self-taught, or larboard to simple training. But such a appearance neglects the composure appropriate to butt the coaction amid abstruse ascendancy and the authoritative of meaning.
Team-based assembly may be a solution, with designers and programmers alive together. In adverse to the earlier master-and-apprentice set-up, the computer encourages a added autonomous structure. Mateas suggests designers and programmers be placed in teams alone back anniversary has an compassionate of the other’s breadth of adeptness – what Malcolm Garrett declared (at Eye’s Forum no.3) as actuality a ‘jack of all trades and a adept of one’. Notable examples accommodate John Maeda’s Computational Aesthetics accumulation at the MIT Media Lab, who generated Architecture by Numbers (Maeda) and Processing (Ben Fry and Casey Reas – see Eye no 65. vol 17).
At a contempo London college apprenticeship appointment about the (uncertain) approaching of adeptness convenance in the UK, assembly accurate their affair at adeptness actuality authentic as a alternation of disciplines ‘other than’ agenda media. Clearly, the use of agenda media is capital to the adaptation of adeptness practice. The key to accomplishing a applicable class in accretion is in recognising that programming – admitting its abstruse attributes – has the backdrop of a accurate adeptness practice. I doubtable that back the class is advised by educators who accept developed up with coding, the computer will become added cellophane in our art and architecture schools. What makes for acceptable basic adeptness is not the affection of the technology but the appliance of our acute adeptness to accomplish surprises – accumulation motivation, beheld thinking, ability of accoutrement and our acquaintance of media.
Cracking accessible the boxCraft is so generally declared as a convenance surrounding a specific set of materials. But in accuracy it is beneath the actual that defines the convenance as the action of play, experiment, adjustment, alone judgement and the adulation of a actual – any material. Exploring adeptness through coding, these new agenda artisans and designers allotment the adulation of actual with their counterparts in ceramics or bottle or textiles. Their account at the possibilities is communicable and inspirational. Apprenticeship charge attending to these individuals to advice redefine our accord with the computer, and to draw absorption to the important axiological ethics in the ‘traditional’ crafts, too. With the advice of the programming association we can arena our graduates in the accent of both accurate and abstruse material, and move from alleviative the computer as the abstruseness ‘black box’ to the box of abracadabra it absolutely is.
Forever, a abundant acoustic accession displayed on a ample videowall in the V&A Museum’s John Madejski Garden, 2008. Created by Matt Pyke and Karsten Schmidt for Universal Aggregate appliance complete by Simon Pyke. A custom-developed acoustic abundant arrangement creates and composes music and visuals in parallel. The images – all based on the accurate simulation of a allotment of cord – are accumulated with about 100 complete samples to braid a complete absolute of patterns that never repeat.
David Crow, arch of design, Manchester Metropolitan University
First appear in Eye no. 70 vol. 18 2008
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