musings on low‑resolution dreaming
Drawing from the artist's collective backgrounds in jewellery, interactive art/design, electronics, ceramics and textiles, the collaboration utilizes bespoke microelectronics, jewellery fabrication, generative design, 3D printing, digital textiles and augmented reality projection media – in a bid to question how we might capture, project and memorialize digital moments in precious data objects, connecting us across space and time.
These works are speculations of self and sentience and the plausible futures of personal IoT objects in a post-pandemic/post-digital world. In a time where social distancing and isolation have affected us all profoundly, how have our relationships with the digital evolved? What is the impact on our sense of self and spiritual well-being, in a digitally augmented world of remoteness, restrictions, rapid technological advancement and the accompanying shadow of obsolescence?
These works are speculations of self and sentience and the plausible futures of personal IoT objects in a post-pandemic/post-digital world. In a time where social distancing and isolation have affected us all profoundly, how have our relationships with the digital evolved? What is the impact on our sense of self and spiritual well-being, in a digitally augmented world of remoteness, restrictions, rapid technological advancement and the accompanying shadow of obsolescence?
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Data Heirlooms is part of the Radiant Pavilion – the Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial:
Thanks for joining our opening night (9 Sept 2021)! While the event has concluded, this website and the exhibition will continue to be online.
Here's the recording of our opening event & artist talk:
Here's the recording of our opening event & artist talk:
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Chuan Khoo (MFA RISD, PhD candidate RMIT) is an artist, designer and educator. Key to Chuan’s creative practice is his multi-disciplinary media background, in particular interaction design, electronics and digital media, as seen through a critical design lens. Working across both design and art, his practice reflects a necessary dualism that interrogates the twin edges of technology – the darker side of its velocity and the ethereal nature of digital ties that may not bind. A learner and educator at heart, Chuan has 15 years of teaching experience across Interaction and Experience Design, ubiquitous computing and electronics prototyping.
www.chuank.com
www.chuank.com
Jaclyn Pokrovsky is a designer-maker and industrial design lecturer at RMIT University. With a deep passion for making Jaclyn’s multidisciplinary practice has a strong focus on narrative, materiality and fabrication. Forever inspired by the prospect of new material knowledge and processes, her work inspires creativity and intrigue. Jaclyn’s has teaching and making experience across; slip casting, jewellery, batch production, object design, fabrication, 3D modelling, and design research. She believes that the very act of making and the inherent understanding of “imperfection” that comes with it, is instrumental to her considered and unique approach to the design process.
Kate Geck is an artist interested in network culture, who is working in Narrm/Melbourne on unceded Wurundjeri land. She works with code, installation and textiles to create augmented surfaces and interactive experiences. Her practice-based research is focused on ways to materialise the seemingly immaterial nature of data and networks. Invoking the language of the Internet, her glitch and emoji laden aesthetic critiques a hyper-mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies. She has exhibited in Australia and abroad, with funding and commissions from a range of local, national and international organisations, including a 2020 commission for the work ‘rlx:tech ~digital spa~’ from the University of Queensland Art Museum. She is presently an Industry Fellow in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) at RMIT University where she co-ordinates the Communications stream. She is also a member of the HASH Network, the Wearable + Sensing Network and the Care-full Design Lab; each at RMIT.
@dreamburgerz
@dreamburgerz
Emma Luke is a designer/maker and academic at RMIT University. With a background in jewellery and watch design she is currently completing a PhD focused on aesthetics and post-digital wearables. Passionate about ambient interventions that challenge digital obsolescence, and the loss of lasting cultural narratives Emma’s work explores the encoding of value through; data, materiality, aesthetics and personalisation to inform the development of holistic wearables for health and wellbeing. Having worked in brands, and her own label and exhibited both locally and internationally Emma’s interests are intuitive technological interventions, post-digital craft practice and the future of personalisation.
www.mecurialist.com.au
www.mecurialist.com.au
Dr Judith Glover is a researcher and Industrial Design practitioner at RMIT University. While having a broad and varied range of experiences in design, fabrication, research and teaching, her current material practice is in ceramic slip- cast production. Interested in the intersection of new and old technologies her projects have explored how digital technologies such as parametric modelling and 3d ceramic printing can be utilised with traditional manufacturing techniques. Exhibiting widely both locally and internationally she was named as a finalist in the 2019 Inaugural Women in Design Award for the Good Design Awards.
Dr Mehrnoush Latifi Khorasgani is a lecturer and researcher at the School of Architecture and Design Swinburne University. Her research focuses on the design of smart skin to study potential impacts of surfaces on microclimates and design of creative responsive skins for buildings, using computational design and digital fabrication techniques. Her creative practice, research and teaching spans the fields of architecture, virtual and augmented reality, thermal comfort and microclimate design. Her research interests focus on the design with, and for, microclimates.
Chuan Khoo (MFA RISD, PhD candidate RMIT) is an artist, designer and educator. Key to Chuan’s creative practice is his multi-disciplinary media background, in particular interaction design, electronics and digital media, as seen through a critical design lens. Working across both design and art, his practice reflects a necessary dualism that interrogates the twin edges of technology – the darker side of its velocity and the ethereal nature of digital ties that may not bind. A learner and educator at heart, Chuan has 15 years of teaching experience across Interaction and Experience Design, ubiquitous computing and electronics prototyping.
www.chuank.com
www.chuank.com
Emma Luke is a designer/maker and academic at RMIT University. With a background in jewellery and watch design she is currently completing a PhD focused on aesthetics and post-digital wearables. Passionate about ambient interventions that challenge digital obsolescence, and the loss of lasting cultural narratives Emma’s work explores the encoding of value through; data, materiality, aesthetics and personalisation to inform the development of holistic wearables for health and wellbeing. Having worked in brands, and her own label and exhibited both locally and internationally Emma’s interests are intuitive technological interventions, post-digital craft practice and the future of personalisation.
www.mecurialist.com.au
www.mecurialist.com.au
Jaclyn Pokrovsky is a designer-maker and industrial design lecturer at RMIT University. With a deep passion for making Jaclyn’s multidisciplinary practice has a strong focus on narrative, materiality and fabrication. Forever inspired by the prospect of new material knowledge and processes, her work inspires creativity and intrigue. Jaclyn’s has teaching and making experience across; slip casting, jewellery, batch production, object design, fabrication, 3D modelling, and design research. She believes that the very act of making and the inherent understanding of “imperfection” that comes with it, is instrumental to her considered and unique approach to the design process.
Dr Judith Glover is a researcher and Industrial Design practitioner at RMIT University. While having a broad and varied range of experiences in design, fabrication, research and teaching, her current material practice is in ceramic slip- cast production. Interested in the intersection of new and old technologies her projects have explored how digital technologies such as parametric modelling and 3d ceramic printing can be utilised with traditional manufacturing techniques. Exhibiting widely both locally and internationally she was named as a finalist in the 2019 Inaugural Women in Design Award for the Good Design Awards.
Kate Geck is an artist interested in network culture, who is working in Narrm/Melbourne on unceded Wurundjeri land. She works with code, installation and textiles to create augmented surfaces and interactive experiences. Her practice-based research is focused on ways to materialise the seemingly immaterial nature of data and networks. Invoking the language of the Internet, her glitch and emoji laden aesthetic critiques a hyper-mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies. She has exhibited in Australia and abroad, with funding and commissions from a range of local, national and international organisations, including a 2020 commission for the work ‘rlx:tech ~digital spa~’ from the University of Queensland Art Museum. She is presently an Industry Fellow in the Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours) at RMIT University where she co-ordinates the Communications stream. She is also a member of the HASH Network, the Wearable + Sensing Network and the Care-full Design Lab; each at RMIT.
@dreamburgerz
@dreamburgerz
Dr Mehrnoush Latifi Khorasgani is a lecturer and researcher at the School of Architecture and Design Swinburne University. Her research focuses on the design of smart skin to study potential impacts of surfaces on microclimates and design of creative responsive skins for buildings, using computational design and digital fabrication techniques. Her creative practice, research and teaching spans the fields of architecture, virtual and augmented reality, thermal comfort and microclimate design. Her research interests focus on the design with, and for, microclimates.
