Michael Wild
I am an Art and Design Lecturer in FE, a designer-maker and Partner at May Wild Design creative practice. I explore traditional hand making techniques combined with digital technologies to create outcomes that connect the hand of the maker with the hand of the user.
My MA practice investigates hand-making processes used in the production of craft objects from the perspective of contemporary makers. Researching the importance placed on the presence of the maker in a ceramic object and if this emblem of individuality is reduced or enhanced, through the impact of new systems of production.
This project investigates the shift of the craft maker's role of production in relation to current social, economic, theoretical and cultural responses to digital technologies. The aim of the project is to raise issues/debates on the impact of how the handmade is engaged with, valued and interpreted and how new modes of technology and production are shaping our current/next generation of craft makers.
