May 2009
3 posts
Creativity, Research and Funding in Canada “I am puzzled. Highly skilled artisans, artists, creators and designers are perhaps among the most sophisticated researchers our society produces. In order to succeed, they have to not only understand the context of their creative work, but also the impact and possible market for their ideas and objects. They have to develop sophisticated models and...
…through the combination of a visual arts background, design studies, and experience working as an arts-technologies researcher and craft gallery assistant, I have developed an interest in the issues between handcrafted and machined. In particular, concerns of meaning and utility, real and simulated, sublime and antiseptic. I intend to produce work that retains the conceptual resonance of...
