Once polar opposites, craft and technology are now merging. And ceramics – an old artisanal technique with 30,000 years’ worth of history – is now amalgamating with digital technologies. Stylus takes a look at the digital crafters – innovators melding the capabilities of technology with new advancements of ceramic application.
Ceramic artists and designers are pushing to develop and accommodate new technological advances – tools that enable the production of objects beyond the limitations of the hand – to discover what it is to be making in the 21st century.