The Campanologist’s Teacup

Abstract

The Campanologist’s Tea Cup is an interactive kinetic sound sculpture using ceramics objects and electromechanical devices, which explores intersections of technology, making and material process in ways that go beyond the current paradigm of digital fabrication techniques and craft practice Origination: Collaborative practice based research project, completed with Jon Pigott, initially created (by invitation) for the Sensorial Object Exhibition CITB, Wales. Jan 2015 Toured Oriel Q, Pembs Aug 2015. Further Exhibition: Selected for inclusion in British Ceramics Biennial Award Show (26th Sept - 8th Nov 2015), Stoke UK Sept 2015 Conference paper: A co-written paper based on the project was selected from abstract submissions and was presented at the internationally renowned Making Futures Conference IV: “Making Futures: craft and the (re)turn of the maker in a post-global sustainably aware society”