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TRIP: An international symposium exploring the role and relevance of traditional ‘hand skills’ in contemporary textiles, and the value and status of craft process.
Wednesday 16th November 2011
Technology such as digital embroidery, print and jacquard, laser and rapid prototyping are valuable assets in textile manufacturing but can be limiting and may restrict or exclude creative spontaneity in the design process, development, and production, but can be seen to impose limitations that may restrict or exclude creative spontaneity and innovation. This may lead to a more superficial approach to the origination of the designs and artefacts, inhibiting conceptual content and promoting mechanical and uniform characteristics where irregularity and subtle variety are less evident in the final textile outcomes. In contrast to this, in relation to traditional processes, human inconsistencies and even error could be promoted as positive qualities, leading to innovation through experimentation and may also embed a desirable degree of character into the textiles. The unexpected can contribute a visual and conceptual depth that is exciting and potentially unique. Within this context the hand-made has acquired a new value and respect in recent years
Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies
5-7 July 2012
A conference convened by the International Network Project, ‘Lens of Empowerment’ (partner-members: School of the Arts, Loughborough University; Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa; The International Academy of Art, Palestine; University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada)
The conference is facilitated in partnership with Iris, the international women’s photography resource [http://www.irisphoto.org/live/index.asp] and Radar, Loughborough University Arts [http://www.arts.lboro.ac.uk/radar/].
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