Seattle, WA STATEMENTMy work probes the intersections of technology, tactility, and embodied forms of knowledge production. As a former neuroscientist, I am fascinated by the mind's systematic pattern-finding and sense-making ability. Through the use of ceramic 3D printing, I have been exploring this human capacity of abstraction in dialogue with the physicality of materials. Digital technology provides both tools and challenges to reassess the past and anticipate the future.I experiment with every aspect of the 3D printing process, from code to machine, and to clay. I frequently collaborate with various STEM fields on wide-ranging interdisciplinary projects from mathematical models of living systems, haptics of IoT data, Virtual Reality, and performative aspects of the body-machine relationship.My current work of porcelain sculptures continues to explore pattern-making/pattern-finding through iteration. It’s important for me to put clay in the center of this play with technology, because slippages and flaws record the process of materiality and the subjectivity of each moment. This way, my work is grounded in the experience of touch while exploring scientific and cultural histories through craft. BIOGRAPHYTimea Tihanyi is a Hungarian born interdisciplinary visual artist and ceramicist living and working in Seattle, Washington. Tihanyi holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, a BFA in Ceramics from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. She is currently working on her Executive MBA at Quantic.Tihanyi’s work has been exhibited in the United States, Brazil, Australia, Denmark, Spain and the Netherlands, including Shepparton Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, Mint Museum of Art and Design, Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburg, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Foundry Art Center, International Museum of Surgical Science, SculptureSpace NYC and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma. She has received many recognitions, including the 2018 Neddy Award in Open Media, a 2018-19 Bergstrom Award, 2024 Kreisheimer-Jones Award, and a New Foundation travel grant. In Seattle, her work has been part of numerous solo and group exhibitions at the Greg Kucera Gallery, Gallery 4Culture, CoCA, Consolidated Works, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) Gallery, Davidson Contemporary, and SOIL Gallery. Her work is available through her studio, the Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, and Abel Contemporary, Stoughton, Wisconsin. Tihanyi is an Emeritus Teaching Professor at the University of Washington. She is the founder and director of Slip Rabbit, a unique mentoring space for experimentation and learning at the intersections of art, design, architecture, science and engineering. Slip Rabbit was the first technoceramics studio in the Pacific Northwest.