CERAMICS RESEARCH

This research/creation project will investigate the interface between ceramics and computer technologies, by bringing together two forms of archives, one archeological, one digital; two forms of experience, one physical, one virtual; two forms of digitalization, one tactile (direct and real), and the other, well, digital (a simulacra). It will also combine two forms of space, one material and the other virtual and bring together the universality of ceramics with the ubiquity of the digital world. This research/creation will progressively develop over a three years period. The first year will consist of specific research and the collection of data and materials to be compiled in an interactive website. The second year will consist of the development of complex 3D forms and complex 2D surfaces for these forms, using computer assisted design software (CAD). The third year will yield the prototyping of 3D models by computer assisted modeling (CAM), the making of molds and the creation of..