Descripción curricular
Babette Wiezorek (*1984) is a Berlin based product designer (MA) and art historian (MA) who researches and works at the interface of materials, technologies and the processes that connect them. She focusses on additive and computer-aided manufacturing (3D printing) with semi-fluid, predominantly ceramic materials. Her research activities are based on a fundamental interest in natural and technical formative processes, thereby she implements organic strategies such as control loops and feedbacks into technical systems such as 3D printing. By doing so, she questions the potentials of this technology and her aesthetically driven approach to material, machine and code is always inscribed in the results and artefacts. In 2017, she founded the design studio Additive Addicted; she teaches at various universities in Kiel, Hamburg and Braunschweig and Berlin. Her work has been exhibited in Milan, Eindhoven, Berlin, Frankfurt a.M., Vienna and Leipzig, among others, and she is also a member of the forschungskreis.com.
With a design and research-driven perspective on digital technologies and a well-founded awareness of the sensual qualities of porcelain, Babette searches for an aesthetic symbiosis of technology and material. Following that approach, porcelain objects and vessels are created that develop extremely filigree and complex structures and push the material to its static limits. Her ouevre encompasses textile-like surfaces and organically grown forms, clearly structured bodies and seemingly random, geomorphic arrangements. What they have in common is a delight in the sensuality of porcelain as a material and a curiosity to push the limits of the potential of digitally supported procedures, to challenge, to combine and explore them.

“The domain I’m operating in is characterised by an interweaving of the complex qualities of ceramic materials, the strange logic of digital tools and the possible patterns of the machine's movements. Beyond this, it is also about finding forms and expressions that touch our bodies and induce our senses, that irritate us and – ideally – stimulate resonances between artefacts, processes and the humankind. I seek the connections between codes and materials, between precision and vagueness, between digitality and empathy.”

Sitios en internet:

• https://additiveaddicted.de/

• https://www.instagram.com/babette.wiezorek/

• http://forschungskreis.com/