Fantasies of making

I wrote Fantasies of Making for the Hospitality: Transmission conference at
Sheffield Hallam University, July 2010. The paper uses the idea of the host,
transmission, and the stranger to explore our relation to industrially produced
objects and to the making process that creates these objects.
These terms were used to explore the potential of both the object
and the images of its manufacture to host ideas, examining the transmission
of these ideas to the stranger, who is removed and at a distance from the
production process of the products of industrial manufacture. Here the encounter
is no longer firsthand, but mediated by film or photograph.

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