*Conclave of the generative heavies here.
http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/news-events-and-calendars/lectures/symposia/code_form_space
"Code, Form, Space," Spring 2009
A mini-symposium on generative form and digital fabrication
Carnegie Mellon University
February 3-7, 2009
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 (((wahoo!))) 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 reconfiguring 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.
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