Digital crafts-machine-ship: creative collaborations with machines
Digital crafts-machine-ship: creative collaborations with machines
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数字工艺-机器-船舶:与机器的创造性合作
DOI:
10.1145/3373644
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发表时间:
2019
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McLean, Alex
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作者:
Andersen, Kristina;Wakkary, Ron;Devendorf, Laura;McLean, Alex
By engaging a shared autonomy of creating objects and things, we see correlations between music, art, computation, politics, and fiber crafts. All are patterned by codes, whether via notations, formal languages, systems of law, weaving drafts, or knitting patterns. These codes invoke patterns of repetition and combination, of interferences and glitches, always turning up surprises. Creating in reaction to material means we work beyond our imaginations. This is especially true when we work with machines and software, which arguably have imaginations of their own to contribute to the process, adding to the layers of enactments between us and the material result. This distances us from the result in that it can pull us back from the process, to watch the mechanical or software systems that also make the things. In this dialogue of closeness and distance, we are still making andThe loom is an early machine, a distinctly human construction; it is seen to be the start of automation and industrialization, seen to replace human hands with abstractions and mechanical movements. But as we know from Haraway, Latour, or Ihde, the weaver is still very much there, whether in cyborgian form or as a human in the assemblage. This machine is an intersection of the digital and non-digital; human flesh, movement, thoughts, and desires that together always produce a materially new thing, which then changes what was there before. The loom-weaver machine has a before and after: Material is added and the outcome has new qualities that transform everything. In this way, the abstractions of the machine melt away. To the weaver, the yarn is not an idea or a metaphor; it is present in its materiality; it has strength and fragility, length and friction. The yarn meets the pattern, the weft meets the warp, the human meets the nonhuman, and together structures are formed.