Material availability – the explosion of materials – the search for construction that is appropriate to materials – no longer boiled,
refined, concentrated, arduous, cleansed – materials are being thought up and made, drawn from the earth, in controlled processes. The most explicit manifestation of this is found in doping, the deliberate adding of impurities – materials achieve what we’ve never been able to achieve through continuities: they turn sunlight into electricity, they glow, shine, gleam, oscillate, move, see, smell, hear, sound, absorb, concentrate, switch, operate logically… simply because we’ve coded them, doped them.
This module conveys, by way of exercises, the methods of material doping. What we are looking for are material constructions which articulate these constructed material properties into new kinds of constructions. Processing, wiring, CNC production.