Welcome to Slip Rabbit

Technoceramics Research and Education Studio

 
 

Slip Rabbit has been forging collaborative relationships with various maker and technology programs at the University of Washington, UCSB, University of New Mexico, and with designers, architects, ceramicists and ceramics studios across North America and Europe for nearly a decade.

The idea of the Studio started in 2016, during Timea’s artist residency at the Sundaymorning@EKWC. Since the summer of 2017, Slip Rabbit has been opening its doors to interns, collaborators and fellow tinkerers, mentoring and training a new generation of designers, artists, technocrafters, and ceramists.


The first part of our mission is to build a space for making and experimentation. We see this space as the common ground and the foundation as we pursue collaborations with mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists, architects, and designers. At Slip Rabbit, digital technology and clay are not only part of the process of creation but also ways to reflect of the embodied human mind. The ceramic 3D printing process encompasses both abstraction and the very tangible reality. Negotiating between code and clay, printing offers exciting opportunities for both artists and non-artists alike.

Opportunities

Slip Rabbit offers a variety of ways to get involved with exciting new research at the intersections of digital technology and ceramics. We offer internships year-round, as well as proposal-based research residencies and creative collaborations.

In its most compelling form, digital ceramics is collaborative and mindful of the clay tradition while being forward thinking, innovative and empowering.

The second part of our mission is to build community: We recruit, support, and mentor new practitioners, with particular attention to women, first generation college students, and individuals from underrepresented groups. During our semi-annual Open Studio events, we reach out to a wide range of audiences, hold process demonstrations, discuss our current projects and invite various practitioners to share their work.

Learn about Digital Ceramics

Slip Rabbit values ingenuity, craftsmanship, insight, and cooperation in every form. We believe that everyone is a maker, and that entry points to making come in different forms and sizes, some are glaringly obvious and some need to be carefully mined. Our goal is to widen this entry door to making for everyone. we do this by offering each individual a customized toolkit of processes and best practices for the journey of expressing their own creativity through making.

The learning curve in digital ceramics may seem daunting at first sight, but getting acquainted with it is easy and simple for any beginner. Building fluency with technoceramics is a very rewarding process and the skills acquired are translatable to many fields, from Interaction Design to Art, Architecture, Computer Science and Engineering, and beyond.

At Slip Rabbit, we hold firm not only that clay printing builds on the ceramic tradition but also that it expands the range of possibilities within this tradition.

For nearly a decade, Slip Rabbit has been promoting a thriving dialogue around both the tool and methodology as we explore and develop its potential. Find more about this in Timea’s book MAKING AND BREAKING RULES: Algorithmic Forms and Tactile Processes - A Techoceramist’s Adventures with Mathematical Thinking.

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Current Projects

Slip Rabbit operates on the model of interdisciplinary collaboration and open-source inquiry and invites proposals for creating, exploring, discovering, tinkering, and sharing.

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Several awards and recognitions support our work:

2017 Tech Specific grant by 4Culture

2018 Neddy Award in Open Media