DIGITAL TEXTILES

Catalog description

With connections to technology and industry, textile practices employ digital platforms to speculate form and simulate materiality. Building off these techno-industrial strategies, students engage hybrid making that moves between the screen and material to imagine textile futures. Workshops present a digital textile vocabulary encompassing digital design, repeat and pattern layouts and material simulation. Student work is output through digital fabrication resources. Coursework considers practices that engage textiles across experiential and technological platforms for contemporary art and design. Essential to this inquiry, students participate in critical discussions of core texts alongside their own making. Studio production engages digital design and outsourced fabrication. This work yields studies and fully realized artworks developed through in-process discussions and presented within formal critique settings. Students who do not meet the prerequisite should speak to their advisor about registering for the course with special approval.