Far from being just a set of tools, digital fabrication is an emergent methodology—drifting across disciplines, materials, and modes of making. Digital Drift explores how contemporary art and design are reshaped when computation meets craft.
At its core, digital fabrication fosters an iterative rhythm of making and remaking, where prototypes are steps in a process of discovery. Materials, too, act as collaborators—responding to digital instructions with resistance, fragility, or surprise. This reciprocity between tool and matter extends the language of design.
The projects in Digital Drift merge hand and machine, dissolving old binaries between digital and manual. Faculty, students, and alumni contribute works that frame digital fabrication as a shared space of inquiry, collaboration, and possibility.
Organized by The Gallery and Digital Design + Fabrication at VCUarts Qatar, with the Anderson and VCUarts Richmond.
