Showing Making: An International Conference on the Representation of Image Making and Creative Practices in Ritual, Art, Media, and Science
Posted on: May 13th, 2009
June 18 & 19 2009, Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
If making is thinking, as Richard Sennett has recently argued in his book The Craftsman, studying making can enable us to understand visual artefacts. Paintings, films, computer animation, or scientific images are the results of skilled procedures and complex interaction between makers, materials, tools and technologies, which generate and shape meaning. Mainly based on tacit knowledge though, these procedures and interactions tend to evade textual description and are, although enclosed in the finished product, usually not recorded. How do we get our hands and minds at these material procedures if we want to study the meaning of making?