Digital Embodiment: Transforming Reduction into Tessellating Multi-block Relief Prints

Abstract

This lecture delivers practice-led research from the artist’s position as print ‘maker’ within contemporary craft. The methodology embodies David Pye’s first-hand account of the workmanship of risk and the project integrates Computer Numerical Control (CNC) milling to overcome process limitations; to realise scalable complex multi-block relief prints and to allow further exploration in colour printing. The outcome reveals how digital embodiment of tacit knowledge in human-computer interactions, programmes the machine tooling to mimic hand-carving the matrix.