This seems kind of interesting....

MATTHEW HEBERT
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15
7p.m.
TIMKEN LECTURE HALL, SAN FRANCISCO CAMPUS
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconcin)

Learning from Second Life: Maintaining the Senses of Craft in Digital Fabrication

Matthew Hebert's lecture-Learning from Second Life: Maintaining the Senses of Craft in Digital Fabrication-will cover the theoretical and practical implications of digital technologies for those who are making-and teaching-craft in the 21st century. One of the biggest challenges: the abstraction of the object into a purely visual phenomenon. The physicality of craft objects, he argues, is too easily overlooked in the digital age.
Hebert creates work that deals with technology and its effects on the domestic environment. He adds layers of use and meaning to recognizable furniture forms to generate new modes of interaction among objects, environments, and users. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley and CCA, and he has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently an assistant professor of furniture at San Diego State University.

All lectures are free and open to the public.
Call 415.703.9563 or visit www.cca.edu/calendar to confirm dates and times.
THE DESIGN AND CRAFT LECTURE SERIES is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

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