SIGGRAPH 2009: Generative Fabrication Panel
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Overview:
Computer-based technologies initially performed an assistive role, as tools that enhanced existing practices in functionalist ways. However, according to Tanya Harrod (The Applied Arts and the Politics and Poetics of Digital Technology, 2002, http://www.pixelraiders.org/), the claim that the computer is only a tool is a cliché. She states that the computer is not just a tool and that use of computer-based technologies affects the thought processes of practitioners. This panel discussion is an opportunity to hear a selection of practitioners participating in the BioLogic and Generative Fabrication exhibitions talk about how they have employed computation beyond an assistive role in their work and discuss how technology has influenced their approach to creative practice.
