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Fusing craft and technology
A collaboration in March between Cockpit Arts and Own-It generated a seminar to explore work by established and emerging designer-makers who fuse craft with technology and their intellectual property rights.
'Creative Collaborations - Craft and Technology' was chaired by University of the Arts London Textile Futures Research and Consultancy Director Dr Jane Harris who spoke of her 'crafting' digital textiles for the virtual environment. For the past seven years, she has worked on a motion capture process with post-production technology to create garments that move on a virtually simulated body. She has seen a giant leap in the relationship between technology and craft disciplines, as technology is developing to render details such as hair and skin more realistically for virtual realities such as Second Life. Head of Design at Holition Lynne Murray presented her virtual jewellery enterprise; a simulated shopping trip site allowing customers to try on virtual jewellery in real time. Holition is a result of a two year 'Knowledge Transfer Partnership' between Holts Lapidary (jewellery retail, design and manufacture) and Birmingham University, and a joint venture between Holts Lapidary and leading 3D technology specialists Inition. Murray's intellectual property rights were developed around new patent-pending software and extraction of Holition as a third company from the former two. UAL...
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