Fred Baier Keynote Address
Fred Baier calls himself a furniture artist rather than craftsman. He is renowned for his avant-garde furniture that playfully blurs the boundaries between design and art. His career spans over 40 years, with work featuring in museums and held in numerous private collections. His pioneering work with digital technologies in the 1980s, makes the ‘Prism chair’ one of the earliest pieces of British furniture designed on a computer.
For more information visit:
www.fredbaier.com
Fiddian Warman Keynote Address
As founder and MD of Soda Limited Fiddian leads it’s team of artists, developers and entrepreneurs in the development of creative tools that help communities work, play and learn together. The best known of Soda’s suite of innovative applications is the BAFTA-winning online construction environment, Sodaplay. Fiddian also teaches part time and if founder of Makers’ Guild, a knowledge sharing organisation for makers of all flavours.
For more information visit:
www.soda.co.uk
www.sodaplay.com
http://makersguild.org
Dr Jayne Wallace Keynote Address
Dr Jayne Wallace is a Digital Jeweller, Reader and Dundee Fellow at the Eclectric Research Studio, University of Dundee. She belongs to an emerging generation of designers from a contemporary craft background working with digital technologies to redefine conventions of how, why and with what things are made in our digital culture. The ways in which our bodies, and the objects that we associate with them, represent different facets of who we are, how we understand ourselves and our relationships with other people have long been a fascination for her. She develops hybrid forms of physical-digital artefact, such as digital jewellery, to serve as a platform both for the exploration of new ways for the digital to support our sense of self and also as a provocative lens on our current assumptions of the materiality and meaning of the digital.
For more information visit:
www.digitaljewellery.com
Professor Chris Speed Keynote Address
Chris Speed is Chair of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh where his research focuses upon the Network Society, Digital Art and Technology, and The Internet of Things. Chris has sustained a critical enquiry into how network technology can engage with the fields of art, design and social experience through a variety of international digital art exhibitions, funded research projects, books journals and conferences. At present Chris is working on funded projects that engage with the flow of food across cities, an internet of cars, turning printers into clocks and a persistent argument that chickens are actually robots. Chris is a co-organiser and compere for the Edinburgh www.ThisHappened.org events and is co-editor of the journal Ubiquity.
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