Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
What is a Drawing Machine?
Home: Illinois, United States
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!
http://drawingmachines.org
Maker
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.
http://pablogarcia.orgWhat Inspired You to Make This?
I have always loved to draw. And I have always loved tinkering. It was in the early 2000s that art history research revealed new details about how artists used historical optical and mechanical devices to make incredible works of art. This inspired me to make drawing tools, teach about drawing technology, and research the breadth of human-machine collaborations in creative fields. I have made different art/design projects exploring drawing technology, and this presentation represents over 12 years of studying and making drawing machines.
