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Title of Exhibit Proposal:

Pulse: The Stuff of Life - New Jewellery Based on Protein Architecture (Ref #205)

Date:
26-10-2006 13:35:46
Status:
Accepted
Rating:
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Details:
Arising from PhD Research this exhibit will expose outcomes from an interdisciplinary project that explored the role of craft in science through the creation of new jewellery based on protein architecture. The protein that sends the electrical impulse of the heart was selected because its narrative potential. Using raw data derived from crystallography, a variety of helixes were produced using rapid prototyping to create new jewellery. In this example the technology of rapid prototyping is appropriated in an exploration of the holism associated with the craft process. Software sourced from the Milwaukee School of Engineering enabled the protein data to be translated into a form suitable for RP technologies available in the UK.

This exhibit will present some of these forms (wax, electroformed in silver and cast) in suspended test tubes above a jeweller?s bench. The jeweller?s bench will contain a piece of jewellery being worked upon. The aim is to create a narrative that alludes to the fact that our creativity directly relates to the materiality of our lives. Making now more than ever concerns what it means to be and become human. The main argument within this exhibit is that holistic processes are necessary for the creation of life, and that through a craft process ? working to create objects of integrity, simplicity and grace we create ourselves. Craft is therefore concerned with the crafted life as much as the crafted object. Presented alongside the exhibit will be two A5 LCD screens, one demonstrating the life of the jewellers bench and the other the mechanistic processes of rapid prototyping emphasising the differences between a mechanistic approach and the organic approach of craft. A series of small photographs beneath the LCD screens will also present some of the jewellery modelled by female scientists from the Wellcome Trust in Dundee.

The exhibit would need a space approximately 5ft square.

Keywords: Craft, Science, Rapid Prototyping, holism.
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Reviewer Comments:

Review #1 : Left on 11-11-2006 11:52:24 #
Very interesting concept. I like the idea of the jeweller's bench and its allusion to the laboratory. The idea of making of a piece of jewellery live in situ (if I have interpreted this correctly) is also engaging and takes the idea of exhibition of static objects into a more interactive format. The fact that this has emerged form a PhD study also suggests that it is underpinned by rigorous thinking.

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Review #2 : Left on 14-11-2006 18:10:07 #
It would be useful to hear the conclusions of the interdisciplinary project that explored the role of craft in science. Will the aims and conclusions of the project be articulated as part of the exhibit or can this kind of information only be represented in a written paper?
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