About the Author
Gilbert Riedelbauch
Author of: What's in a name?
June 2004
Gilbert Riedelbauch is a board member of Craft Australia and a practising artist exhibiting nationally and internationally. Gilbert was part of the team that established the Digital Art Studio introducing digital technologies to students and staff at the Australian National University School of Art, and since 1994, has been lecturer in charge of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3-Dimensional Computer applications. He is also co-researcher for the Fieldscreen Research Project, a digital camera/computer link-up which allows research students based in remote locations to interact with supervisors.
His current work focuses on creating 3-dimensional objects using CAD and rapid prototyping technologies. The shapes of these objects derive from mathematical equations extending the ideas of traditional art and craft making processes.
After completing his degree in silversmithing with a Meisterschueler at the Academy of Fine Art in Nuernberg, Germany, he completed a Graduate Diploma (Silversmithing) at the ANU School of Art. In 1998 he was jointly nominated for an ANU Vice Chancellors Teaching Award and the Australian Awards for University Teaching. In 2002 he was invited to participate at the prestigious Meister der Moderne exhibition at the international Munich Craft Fair and was awarded the coveted Bavarian Staats Prize.
