NEW ORNAMENT
initial questions
How do we want to work with robotic technology?
How do we apply Ornaments to the clay body?
What can be created through linking robotics and craftsmanship?
In collaboration with Marc Goldbach. The project investigates the interaction between manual and robotic production in the material ceramic. New technologies such as robotics enable existing, homogeneous industrial production processes to be abandoned and combined with manual shaping processes.
A cobot is equipped with a drill grinder and metal attachments and removes material from a dried clay body. Using 3D modeling software and visual programming language, a digital framework was created and shapes and patterns generated.
REVEALING TRACKS OF PRODUCTION
The abstract clay body is based on architectural and technical forms. Its surface geometries enable a variety of interactions between the cobot, attachments and material. These appear as milling and engraving marks in the clay surface and are reminiscent of characteristic forms of technical processing. The result is a contemporary ornamentation that reflects the aesthetic potential of industrial logic.The resulting objects are both process and result. They do not focus on function, but show the link between technical apparatus and human intuition.
