Friday 7 March 2014 | 10am – 5pm

MAKE Symposium will look at our relationship to making, to objects, and our awareness through touch of the material world.

MAKE will explore ideas of making in Art and Technology with distinguished speakers from the fields of textile art, ceramics, digital technology, and science.

MAKE will bring low-tech and high-tech makers together to consider the making process itself, how it connects us in our response to the physical world and how this open-ended material dialogue and experimentation is the same no matter if we are closely hand-stitching into cloth, or engaged in hands-on discoveries with the components of open-source electronics. We hope to find synergies, insights, and inspiration, as these two parallel making worlds meet.

PROGRAMME:

o Lesley Millar, MBE, International Curator, Author, and Academic; Professor of Textile Culture; Director, Anglo Textile Japanese Research Centre, University for the Creative Arts, London.

o Fran Hegarty, MSc, Clinical Teacher in Medicine, Trinity College; Principal Physicist, St. James Hospital, Dublin.

o Trevor Hogan, CIT CCAD Department of Media Communications Lecturer; PhD researcher at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.

o Ingrid Murphy, Subject Leader for Ceramics and maker at the National Centre for Ceramics in Wales at Cardiff School of Art and Design.

o Kieran Nolan, Lecturer in Creative Media with the School of Informatics and Creative Arts at Dundalk Institute of Technology; PhD candidate in Digital Arts and Humanities at the Arts Technology Research Lab and GV2 group, Trinity College, Dublin.

o Alice Kettle, Embroidery Artist and Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Keynote speaker – Lesley Millar – Touching to Know, Knowing to Touch

Millar will discuss the fundamental significance of textural experience. Using textile as an example, she will examine how haptic knowledge may be developed through intimacy with those surfaces that invite the centrifugal shift from the analytical gaze to the experiential touch.

Keynote speaker- Alice Kettle – The Feel of Stitch

Kettle will cover the emotional impact of stitch, its transformative impact on maker as well as material.

Hosted by CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in association with the BA (Hons) Contemporary Applied Arts: Ceramics/Glass/Textiles

Booking at: http://events.cit.ie/events?eventId=34.

The symposium will take place at the Stack Theatre, CIT Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork.

MAKE Symposium takes place in conjunction with an exhibition of contemporary textiles in CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery. The exhibition Things/Daiktai came about through an artistic exchange project between CIT Crawford College of Art and Design Textiles Students and Kaunas Art Institute of Art of Vilnius Academy of the Arts, Lithuania.