Atoms + Bytes

Atoms + Bytes

Redefining Craft in the Digital Age

Atoms + Bytes

"Anything feels possible—and many of those possibilities are on delightful display in [Atoms + Bytes]" –The Seattle Times

 

Today's makers have access to a wider array of tools, materials, and processes than ever before. Digital methods such as scanning and imaging, coding, CNC-milling, and rapid prototyping not only influence the way objects are designed, manufactured, and distributed, but also affect our relationships with them.

Atoms + Bytes: Redefining Craft in the Digital Age showcases works by international and local makers situated at the intersection of the digital and the analogue worlds. These artists, craftspeople, and designers excel in material practices that span millennia of craft traditions, while drawing on digital tools to develop innovative ways of making. The integration of these atoms and bytes, building blocks of matter and information, generates the new forms and typologies that shape our changing world.

Through the presentation of works that embody mergers of traditional and digital processes and materials, Atoms + Bytes reframes the conversation about the place of technology within the historical trajectory of object-making and offers an invitation to reevaluate the way we place value on craft and define "hand-made."

Artists

 

Faig Ahmed, Azerbaijan

John Balistreri, USA

Doug Bucci, USA

Adam Chau, USA

Emily Cobb, USA

Michael Eden, UK

Yael Friedman, Israel

Front Design, Sweden

gt2p (Great Things to People), Chile

Tobias Klein, Germany/UK/Hong Kong

Joris Laarman, Netherlands

Aaron Levine, USA

Ligorano/Reese, USA

Studio*Mrmann/Geoffrey Mann, Scotland

Anna Mlasowsky, Germany/USA

Rael San Fratello, USA

Unfold and Tim Knapen, Belgium

Norwood Viviano, USA

Marcel Wanders, Netherlands

Tammy Young Eun Kim, South Korea/USA

Gwendolyn Zierdt, USA

Amit Zoran, Israel

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Atoms + Bytes: Redefining Craft in the Digital Age is organized by Bellevue Arts Museum and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken. This exhibition was supported, in part, by an award from 4Culture.

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