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Cathy Treadaway Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, Wales.
This podcast is intended for educational use only.
Findings from recently completed PhD research into the impact of digital imaging technology on printed textile practice have illuminated the importance of hand use and sensory stimulation in creative cognition. For the craft practitioner the tacit knowledge of the making processes, materials and their interaction, is built through proprioceptive sensory stimuli, received and delivered, principally through the hands. Digital ink-jet printing now provides textile craft practitioners' new methods of delivering one of a kind or limited edition designs without the requirement for the hands on printing methods previously required to translate images onto cloth. These changes inevitably impact upon the practitioners' creative thinking, innovation and working processes.
This paper details part of this research and describes ways in which digital technology supports creative printed textile practice. Use of ethnographic qualitative research methods to collect data are explained including case study, informal interviews, and documentation through video recording, photography and research journals. Collaborative task exercises are described in which the researcher is engaged creatively with the case study practitioners to develop art works. Analysis of this data reveals the importance of physical experience and making by hand in the digital crafting process. The expression of emotional content and its communication through the digitally printed artifact is discussed. Hybridisation of digital and hand crafting practice is described and illustrated.
Current post-doctoral research arising from this study, involving international academic collaborations, is presented and areas for future study proposed.
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Cathy Treadaway la stimulation sensorielle dans le processus de creation oł intervient cet technologie.