Project film

Digital jewelry

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Digital event

Crafts + Technology = Digital jewelry

Proximity, closeness in space, time or relationship. "Digital jewelry" is a project that examines how digital technologies that have influenced the method of production and design of jewelry. Our Proximity, or, our closeness, to individuals as well as production has changed drastically in recent times, this project explores how today's technology can be used to reduce the distance to partners, production, exposition as well as consumption.

"Digital jewelry" explores how designers in a time of physical distance can use technology to collaborate with other designers on a global scale. How can we today produce locally using additive production methods, to reduce production waste and shipping to build a sustainable future. How can we use digital platforms to spread information on a global scale, so that someone on the other side of the world can get an experience of a digital piece of jewelry.

Digital jewelery is a research project where 20 jewelery from the National Museum's collection has been analyzed from a technological perspective, and asks the question: how have technological innovations affected our visual culture and our way of creating.

20 pieces of jewelery were selected and they represent various technological advances that have taken place from the industrial revolution until today.

I will present one of these pieces of jewelry to you here in this project film.

For further information about this project, please visit: www.annikapettersson.se

Digital event

Thu 19 May 00:00 - 23:59
Fri 20 May 00:00 - 23:59
Sat 21 May 00:00 - 23:59
Sun 22 May 00:00 - 23:59

Digital design

Craft/Handicraft

Material design

Product/Industrial design

Experience design

Participants

Annika

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I work in the field of contemporary jewelry, through my work I explore traditional jewelry and reinterpret classical shapes in the light of today. My starting point is often an iconic jewelry theme that I investigate with different techniques and methods. My work is developed through intimate material knowledge and it often embodies the sublime and the transcendent nature of jewelry.

Within my practice I have two main focuses, one is my own personal practice, where I am in total control of the process and I focus on the individual jewelry piece and I often work with series of jewelry. I also do collaborative work, I am one of the founding members of the group A5, an artistic collaborative focused on adornment, the body, and jewelry in cultural contexts. The Jewellery Dinner is another collaboration project that focuses on jewelry, performance and critical discourse. For me, as a maker, it is of great importance to have the two different sides in my practice, the focused personal practice and experimental collaborations.

As a swedish contemporary jewelry I create jewelry according to tradition and I masters the skill of identifying and isolating preciousness. This is done not with the tense precision of a goldsmith, but rather with the gut reaction of a laborer. A hunter understands the physics of his weapon only in a visceral sense, a carpenter learns through physical repetition. This sincere understanding is a prominent aesthetic in my work.

My practice involves tradition craft techniques such as silversmithing, woodworking as well as new techniques such as 3d-printing and 3d-scanning. I build upon and extend my understanding and use of traditional craft practices by applying different working methods. An overarching theme in my work is repetition and appropriation, I often work with modular techniques that I apply to different materials. My most current project “Glitch in the copy” is a body of work explores the noise artifact created by digital reproduction. This series of brooches was a part of a one-year research project at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden.