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Deviant Artifacts: The Work of Radical Craft
Deviant Artifacts: The Work of Radical Craft
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Deviant Artifacts: The Work of Radical Craft
Los Angeles, CA, United States
The archaeological artifact is typically understood to embody the desires and intentions of individual creators as well as of entire cultures and historical movements. But recently, the term “artifact” has come to signify a measure of uncertainty in the relationship between intention and object. “Compression artifacts”—errors or aberrations within digital algorithms—distort information, or introduce novel, unintended patterns that question the fidelity of virtual media.Deviant Artifacts showcases the dual role of the object within the studio practice of Radical Craft, at times operating in service of focused design trajectories, at others straying from project agendas in order to generate new forms, parameters, or fields of inquiry. Hand-crafted ceramic casts, digitally fabricated plaster molds, and ambiguously scaled “models” each offer material resistance to the idealized geometries and desires of proposals operating at the scales of architecture and urbanism.
Radical Craft views the deviant artifact as a generative instrument of resistance to design, embodying the studio’s exploration of “low-fi/high-tech,” reinterpreted as “low fidelity” coupled with “high technique.” The emphasis on technique over technology encompasses a fascination not only with the new, but with the traditional as well; loosening the ideal of “fidelity” in the translation from digital to material realms allows for waywardness through craft processes. The technical challenges of producing an architectural “model” in ceramics offer unexpected potential design considerations for the larger architectural proposal itself. Radical Craft consciously works to develop this form of parallel practice, oscillating between the immediate materiality of the artifact and the speculative mode of the architectural project. A consistent reinterpretation of the artifact is key in coaxing an interaction between these two aspects of scale and practice.
Radical Craft views the deviant artifact as a generative instrument of resistance to design, embodying the studio’s exploration of “low-fi/high-tech,” reinterpreted as “low fidelity” coupled with “high technique.” The emphasis on technique over technology encompasses a fascination not only with the new, but with the traditional as well; loosening the ideal of “fidelity” in the translation from digital to material realms allows for waywardness through craft processes. The technical challenges of producing an architectural “model” in ceramics offer unexpected potential design considerations for the larger architectural proposal itself. Radical Craft consciously works to develop this form of parallel practice, oscillating between the immediate materiality of the artifact and the speculative mode of the architectural project. A consistent reinterpretation of the artifact is key in coaxing an interaction between these two aspects of scale and practice.
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