What is a Drawing Machine?
Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
October 18th-20th
It's 2024 and Pen Plotters are all the rage again! Drawing machines continue to capture the maker's imagination, but we've been here before. Since the Renaissance, humans have used machines to draw. Early machines assisted artists in making life-like renderings, but they soon evolved into complex devices that visualize data, measure natural phenomena, perform sophisticated mathematical calculations, automate written communication, trace copies of images, study anatomy, and even entertain children. Drawing machines have persisted across the arts, sciences, and humanities for six centuries. This talk will connect the dots between the drawing machines of today and our history of human-machine creative collaborations to inspire the creative art machines of the future!
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Pablo Garcia
Pablo Garcia is Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His multidisciplinary research practice blends forgotten analog methods with cutting-edge digital technology, paying homage to our long history of human-machine collaborations in art and design.
