High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
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Virtual/real, rapid/slow, prototype/model in jewellery artist practice
H. Dilkes
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
ABSTRACT: A PhD research project being undertaken in the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne,
is entitled Multiplicity, non-Euclidean geometries, technology, spatiality and object in contemporary jewellery
artist practice. Through practice-based research non-Euclidean geometry is being utilised to explore Henri
Bergson’s philosophy of multiplicity through the making of small art objects and jewellery. This artwork gently
challenges the notions of virtual, rapid, and prototype; it superimoses virtual with real, slows down ...