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Faculty I.D.: Phil Carrizzi Founding program chair Allesee Metals / Jewelry Design program at Kendall College of Art & Design |
 Phil Carrizzi |
Phil Carrizzi
Founding program chair
Allesee Metals / Jewelry Design program at Kendall College of Art & Design
At Kendall Since:
2002
Kudos:
Carrizzi’s work has been featured on the cover of Metalsmith magazine. He was coordinator of the artist-in-residence program at the SIGGRAPH computer arts conference in San Diego in August 2007 and chair of the SIGGRAPH Guerilla Studio in 2008.
“We taught the attendees to use some of the new technology: 3D printing, wide-format printing, 4,000-per-second video cameras. It was essentially a high-tech lab for designers and artists within the context of this large animation and computer design conference. SIGGRAPH is designed for animators and special effects people, yet somebody who heads a jewelry design program is running one of the major projects there because Kendall has this technology. One of the things I think that sets Kendall apart is that we have been investing at a much more rapid pace than other schools in terms of modern and even futuristic technologies.”
Interests:
“I was born and raised in Detroit, so cars and details of cars are probably my primary influence. I’m also really interested in medical gear of pretty much any kind: pressure cups, test tubes, syringes. That’s a very different set of things. The cars are about sexuality and freedom, and the medical gear I’m interested in because it scares me.
“Now I’m working with a piece of software called Real Flow, which creates fluid dynamics simulation – much like what is used in computer graphics and animation. An interesting thing about the software is that it’s happening over time. So you start with state A and have state Z at the end, and every micro-state in between. Each of those is a unique object. So you could have semi-mass produced objects, which are all unique, yet don’t require the type of labor that traditional crafts employ. That’s the future. My other focus is preparing to teach the history of jewelry design. I’m interested in both the past and the future of the field.”