http://dapperalchemist.com/2008/09/03/giving-yourself-away/ Exploring the collisions between science and art Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:48:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://dapperalchemist.com/2008/09/03/giving-yourself-away/comment-page-1/#comment-59 tobie Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:31:51 +0000 http://dapperalchemist.wordpress.com/?p=542#comment-59 hi Dapper Alchemist, we thought of this project as a collaboration between engineers and designers, rather than engineers and artists. The outcomes then, are speculative products, in that they are conceived and designed to be a part of material culture, and interact with markets and retail institutions and users, but don't actually go on to get manufactured in large volumes. This isn't a conceit, I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned "Although, artists themselves foster a certain amount of mystique about their craft", and on the other hand, to go on to develop a prototype as a real product, the process becomes pretty boring and introspective. So Biojewellery sits in the middle, hopefully accessible and also critical. BTW, see www.materialbeliefs.com for a science and society project working with similar methods and processes... hi Dapper Alchemist, we thought of this project as a collaboration between engineers and designers, rather than engineers and artists. The outcomes then, are speculative products, in that they are conceived and designed to be a part of material culture, and interact with markets and retail institutions and users, but don’t actually go on to get manufactured in large volumes. This isn’t a conceit, I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned “Although, artists themselves foster a certain amount of mystique about their craft”, and on the other hand, to go on to develop a prototype as a real product, the process becomes pretty boring and introspective. So Biojewellery sits in the middle, hopefully accessible and also critical. BTW, see http://www.materialbeliefs.com for a science and society project working with similar methods and processes…

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