Artist’s Talk: Timea Tihanyi

Material/Human/Machine: Experimental Possibilities with Ceramic 3D printing

Ceramic artist and founder-director of Slip Rabbit, an experimental techno-ceramics research space in Seattle, discusses the development and experimental possibilities of ceramic 3D printing from the early days to the present. Through the introduction of various bodies of her work, Tihanyi will give an overview of the ceramic 3D printing process, discuss ideas about materiality and algorithms, and the importance of preserving tactility while utilizing technology. 

BIO

Timea Tihanyi is a Hungarian interdisciplinary artist and ceramicist living in Seattle, USA. Tihanyi is a Doctor of Medicine (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary) and holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington (2003). Tihanyi’s porcelain sculptures have been exhibited in France, Spain, Netherlands, and Australia. In the USA, her work has been presented at the Museum of Northwest Art, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Arts Museum, Mint Museum of Art and Design, Society for Contemporary Craft, Clay Center, Foundry Art Center, International Museum of Surgical Science, and SculptureSpace NYC. Tihanyi is the founder of Slip Rabbit (sliprabbit.org), a pioneering research and mentoring space for ceramic 3D printing through which she collaborates extensively with technophiles creating a dialogue between code and the materiality of clay.