Digital Mirrors of Materiality

part of *Defying Boundaries: MacArthur Fellows at 45

with Katherine Behar, Nick Benson*, Hideo Mabuchi*, and Camille Utterback*

Moderated by Vanessa Chang

November 4, 3:00-5:20PM

Denning Family Resource Center, Anderson Collection

Reception to follow

5:30-6:30PM at the McMurtry Building Courtyard

We are all in some way navigating widespread futureshock over paradigm-breaking growth in the power of computation and robotics. Stepping back from the most expansive societal stakes to seek grounding at personal scale, expressive making offers a rich context within which to reflect upon what craft does for the maker, and what is lost or gained when we augment or supplant embodied engagement with digital technologies. If our goal is not just to produce but to make things as a way of being at home in the world, what could we possibly want from the leverage of fabulous machines? Can traditional craft assimilate the expansiveness of the digital? How does this historical moment call for us to affirm the value of practicing heirloom modes of creativity?

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This event made possible by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , Funding Good Chaos, Stanford Arts Institute (SAI), the Department of Art and Art History and the Office of the Vice President for the Arts.