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Jim Wood

thinking, finding, making :: researching, designing, crafting

I have been working in education and practice of Interactive Digital Media (Media Arts, Interaction Design)
Now I'm a research student at Goldsmiths, University of London in Design department.
Firstly I've been researching toolkits and their use, methods and processes, makers and creators. That is largely focused on what has become known as Physical Computing, as part of experimental arts and interation design practice.

Why and how?
I am interested in ways of making things, prototyping, toolkits, interfaces, materials. that is what I'm researching and making using the venerable Arduino et al. I'm interested in technologies and use of creatively, and perhaps what you could call creative combinations. Historically: From Arts and Crafts, to Modernism to Kinetic Art to Cybernetic Art to Elecronic Art, Media Art and Digital Art.
What i have been planning is a study on the toolkits and how to embellish them conceptually and pedagogically, rather than technically.
Two initial concepts: monolith: invisible interface/interaction; pincushion:

 
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