Technology and art are connected more than ever before. You’ve heard rumblings about using home crafting tools, vinyl cutters, and laser cutters to score paper for origami—but how do you get started? What can you achieve?
Over the last 4 years, I’ve been on a journey use what I know about technology to enhance the art that I love: origami. This session will include a presentation about my experiences using cutting and scoring technology to make and study origami. We will follow the story from my first Cricut machine to using industrial laser cutters to achieve a large-scale origami tessellation. I’ll bring along some of my successes and failures for you to see. We will open the class up for discussion and questions.
There will be no specific hands-on instruction. No folding experience is required; however, I will be discussing technological topics to include vector drawing, file types, laser technology, paper types, and some material science. It will be useful to have basic experience with drawing programs and vocabulary for using computers.
No supplies required.