Autonomatic / Great Britain
Katie Bunnell
Tavs Jørgensen
Justin Marshall
Drummond Masterton
Autonomatic do research that explores the use of digital manufacturing technologies in the creative process of designing and making three dimensional objects.
As creative researchers they have a basic urge to invent new ways of making things, to ask ”what if?”, ”so what?” and ”what next?”. Through their individualistic and autonomous approach to using digital technologies they hope to inspire other designers and makers to approach digital technologies with a creative mindset.
The word autonomatic, is a hybrid fabricated from two other words: Automatic, defined as ”mechanical” and ”working of itself without direct human actuation”; and the less familiar Autonomic, derived from autonomy, alluding to personal freedom and self-government. As such, it carries within it an intrinsic contradiction: Automatic suggests involuntary, repetitive, machine-like or machine-led actions; while Autonomic implies human self-sufficiency, independence and individuality.
