The designer Vera van de Seyp visits Elisava to offer the lecture Computational Craft as part of the Graphic Lectures, organized by Graphic Elisava.
Next to offering a general insight into her work, Vera van de Seyp will dive in this talk into creating motion through craft and computation. Vera shows how the tactility of weaving, knitting, and other tangible crafts can extend to the digital realm.
Vera van de Seyp is a computational designer and educator based in NYC. Her work explores generative design tools, computational typography, and using artificial intelligence for design. Vera recently completed a Research Assistantship with the Future Sketches group at MIT Media Lab, and studied at KABK and Leiden University.
Vera van de Seyp has collaborated with clients like WIRED, Serpentine Galleries London, and Google Arts and Culture. She also teaches and gives workshops and lectures to inspire creatives to make (and code) their own design tools. She is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Projects include playful websites, generative language installations, perpetually morphing typefaces, typographic tools, creative coding symposia, and textiles made with a hacked knitting machine.