“The universe may change but not me.”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph
Northumbria University
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To go along with the laser cutting I will be working on this semester, I will also attend this Symposium in Loughborough where my tutor, Sian Bowen, will be the key note speaker…
Cutting Edge : Lasers and Creativity
Loughborough University School of Art and Design 4 November 2009
Symposium Programme
9:00 Registration and Coffee
10:15 Welcome
Kerry Walton
Professor Marsha Meskimmon, Director of School of Art and Design
10:20 Introduction Professor Terence Kavanagh, Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences
10:30 Keynote
Siân Bowen
11:15 Slow Cutting – Jenny Smith
11:40 BREAK
11:50 Between emerging and commonplace – laser technology and the creative space – Marlene Little
12:15 Carbon Based Forms – Rachel Nee
12:40 Panel discussion Siân Bowen, Jenny Smith, Marlene Little, Rachel Nee
13:00 LUNCH
13:45 Jacob Schlaepfer – Rob Huddleston and Paul Whittaker
14:10 RESURFACED : an exploration of ‘design for upcycling’ through laser finishing for textiles – Kate Goldsworthy
14:35 Laser Processing for the Creative Industries – Sarah O’Hana
15:00 Panel discussion
Rob Huddleston, Paul Whittaker, Kate Goldsworthy, Sarah O’Hana
15:15 BREAK with refreshments
15:30 Distance=Planned Decisions – Joanne Berry
15:55 Lasers: Forming a relationship in the Making – Sarah Silve
16:20 Laser Facilitation in the Context of Hybrid Technology – John Angus
16:45 Panel discussion
Joanne Berry, Sarah Silve, John Angus
17:00 Close
17:05 Drinks reception
18:00 End
Cutting Edge : Lasers and Creativity
Loughborough University School of Art and Design 4 November 2009
Symposium Programme
9.30 – 6.00 Laser Demonstration
Barry Abson and David Barkham from Cad Cam Technology
Drawing Research Room
9.30 – 6.00 3 minute Rolling PowerPoint Presentations
Jenny Addrison, Parveen Bazaz, Roberta Bernabei, Libby Day,
Dan Heath, Faith Kane, Janette Matthews, Lauren Moriarty,
Sarah Robertson, Kerry Walton, 4d Designs – Mike Radford.
Post Graduate Teaching Space
Project Space
Presenters will be available for discussion at lunch break, 13.00 – 13.45
and 5.00 – 6.00 during the drinks reception
9.30 – 6.00 Exhibition of Products
Parveen Bazaz, 4d Design
Post Graduate Teaching Space
This event will be recorded to retain a record of the day.
Proceedings will be published.
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My first “artist talk” happened last week and thankfully it wasn’t as intimidating as I had expected it to be. At times I felt I could hear my own voice and had no control over what I was saying, my passion took over.
Our group was interesting, as I only knew the work of two others. I learnt that no matter whether you like the work visually, the ideas that underpin it, and the artist’s attitude to their practice is always the most important thing. I also discovered that we all experience the same anxieties and periods of being lost or stuck. This was very reassuring.
A major issue I will have to face is the documentation of my work. The pieces I have been working on this year are extremely difficult to photograph- would I tackle this with a professional photographer? Or decide that they should not be photographed at all?
An example of the difficulty in showing my work is here. Only slight marks can be seen, a very different experience is offered when viewed in reality…
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Notes from a nerve-wracking presentation…
Nathalie Bouleau Chabot: Third year Printmaker
Before I joined the course I studied one year of Fashion, things like pattern cutting and pin marking have influenced my style of working, and my clean, precise attitude probably comes from there too.
The use of paper is central to my practice and I am occupied in dealing with line, gesture and interruption to reveal paradoxical qualities of intent/accident reveal/ conceal substance / light and fragment/whole.
My work is difficult to photograph, an issue I will have to work on further in the course.
“Threadburn” was an accidental test piece, which was actually chosen to be shown in Japan along with three other works
Primitive and universal aspects are of interest to me. Last year I looked at modern and vernacular architecture, exploring lines. Marks and Traces can vary in the information they offer. The physical act and process of making, through methods such as burning, pouncing, piercing or cutting are important to me, as are the laborious, repetitive actions required to construct pieces of work.
This year, I am looking at the circle as a symbol and a motif. The symbols of man are infinite in their complexity but simple in their rules. The dot and the circle are symbols of the first order of all humans. A recurrent motif in architecture of every civilisation, they can show the reflective self-awareness that is present in all humans of all cultures and locations.
I will also become more sculptural, thinking about how we physically look at work. When I work, a contemplative space is created wherein I am more fully able to reflect on my own sensory experience. I want to create a similar meditative space for the viewer where they can experience the familiar through my work in infinite ways; with mark making acting as a form of contact between artist and medium, artist and audience and audience and work.
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