[dorkbotpgh-announce] upcoming event: "Code, Form, Space Mini-Symposium" @ Carnegie Mellon

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[We thought dorkbot types would be interested in this. -jet & dorkbotpgh]

Code, Form, Space Mini-Symposium

Algorithmic processes, harnessed through the medium of code, allow 
creators to generate complex forms and organic structures by the 
application of elementary but carefully-tuned sets of rules. Digital 
fabrication systems, such as computer-controlled laser cutters, 3D 
printers, and machining systems, offer a nearly instantaneous way of 
exploring ideas in new spatial and material formats. The combination of 
these two approaches represents an extreme but growing position in art 
and design, wherein the traditions of hand-craft are exchanged almost 
entirely for the unprecedented possibilities made possible through a 
demanding new form of mind-craft.

In this mini-symposium, we present four practitioners – Casey Reas, 
Marius Watz, Ben Pell, and MOS Architects (directed by Michael Meredith 
and Hilary Sample) – who are refiguring the material world through rule 
systems and digital fabrication tools. Their work spans the disciplines 
of art, design, architecture, and engineering; the objectives of 
provocation, of utility, and of pure aesthetic delight; and the realms 
of bits, atoms, and ideas. All of these practitioners have singularly 
rigorous personal aesthetics and sensitive understandings of how the 
arts can transform the way we live. In their contrasting approaches at 
the limits of digital craft we can catch a glimpse of a new humanism in 
our increasingly computer-articulated environments.

The “Code, Form, Space” mini-symposium, directed by Professors Jeremy 
Ficca and Golan Levin, is a collaborative venture of the Digital 
Fabrication Laboratory (dFAB) in the CMU School of Architecture and the 
CMU School of Art Lecture Series.


CMU School of Architecture:
http://www.cmu.edu/architecture/news/2009/01-16-codeformspace.html

CMU School of Art:
http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/news-events-and-calendars/lectures/symposia/code_form_space



-- 
J. Eric "jet" Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09

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