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Object lessons: copying and reconstruction as a teaching strategy

Minkin, Louisa and Dawson, Ian (2014) Object lessons: copying and reconstruction as a teaching strategy. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 13 (1). pp. 197-29. ISSN 1474-273X

Type of Research: Article
Creators: Minkin, Louisa and Dawson, Ian
Description:

At Winchester School of Art we have worked through a series of copy projects over the past four years. We began remaking historic art objects including Anthony Caro’s ‘Early One Morning’ and Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’. Works were fabricated collectively and staged at an end of term event. The project developed to reconstruct apparatus to make copies, including François Willème’s Photosculpture apparatus: a paradigm for nineteenth century modernity which provides a genealogy for 3D prototyping and is arguably an antecedent of cybernetic culture. Obsolete technological positions were restaged in order to better understand current cultures. Over this process, which we characterize as a material historiography, we have worked collaboratively with archaeologists at the University of Southampton to share practice and knowledge around both contemporary visualization technologies and ancient processes, most recently working speculatively through the production process of carved Neolithic artefacts.
Both projects draw together technical and contextual teaching and define new uses of space and collective research structures.

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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: 3D print, visualisation technology
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: Intellect
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Date: 1 April 2014
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1386/adch.13.1.19_1
Date Deposited: 18 Jun 2014 08:43
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2019 15:50
Item ID: 6831
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/6831

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