{"id":2979,"date":"2016-01-03T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:32:53","slug":"critical-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2016\/01\/critical-making.html","title":{"rendered":"Critical Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/critical-making.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2980\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/critical-making.png\" alt=\"critical making\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/critical-making.png 578w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/critical-making-500x434.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Critical Making is a handmade book project by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work \u2010 making \u2010 can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society.<\/p>\n<p>It works to blend and extend the fields of design, contemporary art, DIY\/craft and technological development. It also can be thought of as an appeal to the electronic DIY maker movement to be critically engaged with culture, history and society: after learning to use a 3D printer, making an LED blink or using an Arduino, then what?<\/p>\n<p>The publication has 70 contributors \u2010 primarily from contemporary art and academia \u2010 and its 352 pages are bound in ten pocket-sized zine-like volumes. The project takes the topic of DIY culture literally by printing an edition of 300 copies on a hacked photocopier with booklets that were manually folded, stapled and cut.<\/p>\n<p>The entire collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceptlab.com\/criticalmaking\/#\" target=\"_blank\">scanned and released online<\/a>. Illustration: Prototype for a machine that inserts razor blades into apples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Making is a handmade book project by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work \u2010 making \u2010 can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society. It works to blend and extend the fields of design, contemporary art, DIY\/craft and technological development. It also can be thought of as an appeal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}