PPIG 2018

Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:00 AM - Friday, 7 September 2018 5:00 PM GST

6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, London, C1N 3AT, United Kingdom

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Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:00 AM - Friday, 7 September 2018 5:00 PM GST

The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, London, C1N 3AT, United Kingdom.

Please check the workshop page on the PPIG website for more details and program updates: http://www.ppig.org/workshops/ppig-2018-29th-annual-workshop

Theme

PPIG has always been founded on a dualism: we take as much interest in the psychology of the act of programming as in the computational aspects of psychology. Our special theme for 2018, “craft in programming”, doubles down on this duality - we are hoping to see discussions for or against the craft status of programming, as well as explorations of how programming may interact harmoniously or injuriously with traditional crafts.
Papers received to recent PPIG workshops have already broken this ground - exploring connections between software and maker culture, distinctions between the craft of artists and amateurs, and whether making software could qualify as a craft at all, beyond being an unreliable activity which requires skill and insight to achieve desirable results.
This year we would like to take these issues further, and we particularly welcomed submissions that explore the contradictions between the working practices and assumptions of workers in tangible and intangible media, as well as proposals for refounding our disciplines so that such contradictions could be healed. For example, a recent focus of organisations such as the Heritage Crafts Association has been the curation of what is termed “Intangible Cultural Heritage” - the invisible transmission of knowledge and skills associated with traditional artisanry. But here we have a contradiction, since although programming is famously comfortable manipulating the abstract, it is equally famously uncomfortable dealing with the unquantifiable and indefinable. What assistance could a future programming offer to such struggling traditions?

Location

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The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, C1N 3AT, UK
This year’s PPIG workshop will be gloriously hosted in the London headquarters of the Art Workers’ Guild, founded in 1884 by followers of William Morris. The Guild was founded to teach the ethics of the Arts and Crafts movement to all the craft disciplines. The Guild’s atmosphere provides particularly fertile grounds for exploring connections and contradictions between our senses of craft. Last year the guild hosted a lecture by Sir Christopher Frayling entitled “Craft: a word to start an argument”, which initiated many conversations within the guild about craft education in the digital age. We expect discussion will be lively and fresh.
 
 

We look forward to seeing you in London!

Luke Church

Http://www.ppig.org/workshops/ppig-2018-29th-annual-workshop

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