DIGITAL JEWELRY

The project explores archives in relation to new production technology: an artistic, material and technological study of the value and relevance of artifacts in an era of digital manufacturing. The project analyzes 3D printing technologies as a method to revive the museum's archived artifacts.

How does our contemporary visual culture look like and how has the advancement of technology affected our methods of creating? How do today's digital technologies affect craftsmanship and their relation to materials? This project aims to examine how technological innovations have affected our visual culture and our way of creating. Project results can be divided into three parts. The first part is a study of the history of jewelry and the story they carry with them. How has the history of jewelry been affected by technological innovations?

The study will examine specific jewelry from 1800 to the present, the result is a timeline, showing jewelry's development in relation to technological advances. The study will be done at Stockholm, Sweden, National Museum's archives, where specific jewelry will be examined and analyzed. The project intends to present this study in the form of images and text depicting jewelry history in the form of a publication.

The second part is a practical examination where the traditional jewelry from the museum's archives is reinterpreted or recreated in today's context with the help of digital media. Re-contextualizing an object can cause us to pause and redefine the object seen with a new set of eyes, breaking a monotonous everyday perception. This project has come to combine traditional jewelry with contemporary aesthetics, new methods and digital production. The project examines the relationship between the history of technology, context and jewelry. This part will result in a series of jewelry consisting of 20 jewelry pieces.

The third part is the digital, here the whole project will be available on a global scale digitally. This is something that is one of the cornerstones of this project, the digital "open source" culture. Working with digital technology opens up new opportunities for the dissemination of information and works. Projects will create a website where all research will be presented and the publication will be available to download. The 20 pieces of jewelry created during this project will be presented they will also be available for download. This allows visitors to download and 3D-print the jewelry at home.