Annarita Bianco
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Published: 22.02.2024
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After graduating in architectural design and practicing graphic design I decided to combine practical making and theoric research by training as a goldsmith. At the end of 2019, I founded my studio Merıstėma Lab. Always looking for something that merges technological research and craftsmanship, humanistic studies, and scientific theories. Questioning the matter, seeking its unexpressed values is always my core topic of interest.Statement
About Merıstėma Lab:Blurring boundaries among disciplines, Merıstėma Lab is an experimental design studio. As in an alchemist laboratory, matter changes, substances melt, materials transform and suggestions coming from different fields merge to assume a different state. Like meristem – plants undifferentiated cells capable of cell division- any concept could take a shape that crosses traditional design fields: jewellery, graphic design, objects that hybridize traditional craft and technological progress, analogical and digital, biological and artificial.
About 3020:
The 3020 project is a possible scenario that depicts a future 1000 years from now. It tries to imagine how e-waste, the physical debris of the immaterial digital era, interferes with geological processes.
Inspired by three main lithogenic processes - sedimentary, magmatic, and metamorphic - I have created three different kinds of synthetic rocks, which include USB cable waste. These cables are made up of an alloy of copper and silver. Cut, oxidized, heated, and granulated, the transformed wire is embedded in an epoxy resin casting. These new gems are set on a silver sheet whose shape is the result of two tangent circles which stand for natural and artificial realms establishing a connection first (T brooch set), that goes towards a complete overlap (U brooch set).
Graphical patterns, which are laser engraved on a silver sheet, represent an attempt to put together digital features and natural rock texture: a symbiosis of natural and post-digital fascination.
Parallel layers inspired by sedimentary rock are translated into a corrupted signal, a glitch noise pattern. Porous volcanic rock recalls a dotted pattern which refers to hole-punched cards used in early computers to contain digital data. Deformation waves typical in metamorphic rocks become a wind of bits, a visual representation of digital dataflow filling cyberspace.
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