Digital Meets Handmade: Jewelry in the 21st Century
TUESDAY, MAY 15
8:15 am Registration, Reception and Coffee
9:20 am Welcome Speech
9:40 am Keynote Speaker: Wendy Yothers: "A Collision of Cultures: Digital Meets Handmade"
10:00 am Annika Pettersson: "Glitch in the Copy: Digital Technology/Noise Artifact"
10:20 am Lisa M. Berman: "How Valuation Can Be Affected and Measured in Digitally Wrought
Jewelry"
10:40 am Veronika Schwarzinger: "The Relationship between Jewelry Maker and Jewelry Consumer:
Jewelry as Art"
11 am Coffee Break
11:20 am Keynote Speaker: Alba Cappellieri: "Time Lapse in Jewelry: Is Digital the Only Future?"
11:40 am Yan Li and Liang Hao: "Digital Design and Additive Manufacturing of Precious Metal
for Jewelry With Movable Structures"
Noon Azure Qianwen Zhang: "Algorithms and Hands"
12:20 pm Marie Boltenstern: "Series of Uniqueness—Computational Strategies for Direct Precious
Metal Printing"
12:40 pm Lunch Break
2:20 pm Keynote Speaker: Susanna Pozzoli, curator, artist and creator of the Homo Farber exhibition
2:40 pm Sarvani Vaddi: "Traditional Handcrafted Jewelry vs. Contemporary Digital Jewelry
Dictated by Culture"
3 pm Sasha Nixon: "Pixels Bejeweled: Modern Media and Contemporary Jewelry"
3:20 pm Kadri Mälk and Sofia Hallik: "Digital Craft"
3:40 pm Coffee Break
4 pm Anna Walker: "A Manual Interface: Digital Tools in the Jeweler's Hand"
4:20 pm Ann Marie Shillito: "Haptics: A Hands-On Approach to 3D Digital Model-Making"
5 pm Tour of the Graduating Students Exhibition, The Museum at FIT
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
9 am Reception and Coffee
9:40 am Keynote Speaker: David Fletcher: "An Overview of Direct Digital Manufacturing, with
Case Studies"
10 am Elizabeth Fischer: "Future Bodies"
10:20 am Christine Ludeke: "Manufacturing Human Beingness in Jewelry Through Digital Transformation"
10:40 am Alba Cappellieri, Livia Tenuta, and Susanna Testa: "Jewellery Interactions: From
Analogic to Digital"
11 am Coffee Break
11:20 am Caitlin Skelcey: "Fabricated Bodies: Jewelry Prosthetic and Cyborg Identities"
11:40 am Michael Gayk: "The Need for Design Rigor and Variability Within Digital Craft"
Noon Xinan Yu: "Digital Humanity and Visualization of the Jewelry Archive and Kinematic
Reinterpretation for Historic Jewelry"
12:20 pm Lunch
2:20 pm Keynote Speaker: David Webb
2:40 pm Paulina Sierra: "Future Carriers of Our Past"
3 pm Jeff Deegan: "Finding the Sensuous in Digital"
3:20 pm Erica A. Meier: "Reexamining Skill: Deskilling and Dematerialization in Jewelry"
3:40 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Bin Dixon-Ward: "The Grid, From Colonial to Digital: The Role of Digital Technology
in Craft Making"
4:20 pm Sunyoung Cheong: "The Future of Jewelry Programs in Higher Education: The Intersection
of Technology and Handcraft"
5:40 pm Dinner
THURSDAY, MAY 17
9 am Reception and Coffee
9:40 am Keynote Speaker: Troy Richards
10 am Donna Mason Sweigart, Patricia Madeja, Ho'o Hee, and Ashley Marcovitz: "Nomenclature
in Jewelry"
10:20 am Preetha Hussain: "Decoding the Importance of Handmade Jewelry in the Indian Cultural
Context"
10:40 am Karen-Ann Dicken and Sandra Wilson: "Digital Tooling"
11 am Coffee Break
11:20 am Zoltan David: "The Successful Union of CAD with Handmade: Pricing Involving CAD Use"
11:40 am Synne Skjulstad: "Precious Trash: Discursive Jewelry, Ocean Plastic, and Digital
Mediational Refinement"
Noon Jason Thomson: "Digital Graffiti"
12:20 pm Emily Cobb: "Sleight of Hand: Digital Influences on Contemporary Jewelry Education"
12:40 pm Lunch
2:20 pm Keynote Speaker: Matt Bennett
3:20 pm Panel Discussion: "Has CAD Gone Bad?"
3:40 pm Kim Nelson: "A Virtual Tradition"
4 pm Lynne Heller and Dorie Millerson: "Craft Pedagogy and the Digital Challenge From
a Jewelry Perspective"
4:20 pm Coffee Break
4:40 pm Closing Speech