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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Goldsmiths' College
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Article title
Coal-powered Craft: a past for the future
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Journal of Modern Craft
Article number
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Volume number
4
Issue number
2
First page of article
147
ISSN of journal
17496772
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
In the spirit of steampunk this paper juxtaposes ideas about craft, technology, and labor from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century to explore new ways of thinking about contemporary making. Richard Sennett’s concept of open-source software as ‘public craft’ is investigated through the history of free speech and free software, as a precursor to the integration of crafter and hacker culture. These concepts are embodied in the recent work Coal Fired Computers (2010) by YoHa, and FLOW, a watermill by Ed Carter and the Owl Project (2010–12), examples that are investigated in the paper.
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Cross-referral requested
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