DIGITAL DEGRADATION

DIGITAL DEGRADATION: To Rethink the Relationship between Handmade and Mass Production In the Age of Digital.

DIGITAL DEGRADATION: To Rethink the Relationship between Handmade and Mass Production In the Age of Digital.

This research, “Digital Degradation,” critiques mass-produced products targeting cheaper, faster manufacturing. In contrast to mass-production, handcraft has always been an attractive way of manufacturing products. The uniqueness of flaws inherent in handmade works is perceived to add rather than diminish the value. Attempts at digitizing or mass creating this same sort of mark have often been critiqued as a pastiche reference to handmade products, building in the same flaw into every product.
Therefore, I am proposing to find the flaws in the “Digital Hand’s Works.” This research uses the three-dimensional scanner to scan the original, printed out that scan, and going through serial generations to build this kind of difference visible within a set of domestic objects. The process explores a way of creating specificity to products that make equivalence value as handmade products.

The average size of a teaspoon is height: 70 mm * width: 24mm printed in UV resin.

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