Jepara Wooden Carving in the Digital Era

Edi Eskak, Irfa’ina Rohana Salma

2019

Abstract

This paper is a study for redefinition of latest arts, in wooden carving. The equipment in work carving in today's is Computer Numerical Control (CNC). CNC can eliminates manual processes. Also, there was a diminishing interest in people’s youth of Jepara in pursuing jobs as wood carvers. The presence of CNC is a solution that can replace human source. However, carving products produced by CNC machines are less attractive to the consumers. There is a contradiction, wich is this advanced technology can replace most of the production of art to be more effective, efficient, consistent, and precisely, but consumers actually want the unique and distinctive handiwork. This paper aims to uncover the creativity of entrepreneurs and wood carving artists responding to the tastes of markets and to get solutions to the existing problems. The method used is qualitative by getting data of literature and observation. The solution is to use CNC to speed up the production in initial engraving and then the carving process is continued with the hand skill manually. The product still expresses a distinctive creativity as a carving work done with hand skills, but can be done faster than using the full manual technique.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Eskak E. and Salma I. (2019). Jepara Wooden Carving in the Digital Era.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intermedia Arts and Creative Technology - Volume 1: CREATIVEARTS, ISBN 978-989-758-430-5, pages 31-39. DOI: 10.5220/0008525800310039

in Bibtex Style

@conference{creativearts19,
author={Edi Eskak and Irfa’ina Rohana Salma},
title={Jepara Wooden Carving in the Digital Era},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intermedia Arts and Creative Technology - Volume 1: CREATIVEARTS,},
year={2019},
pages={31-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008525800310039},
isbn={978-989-758-430-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intermedia Arts and Creative Technology - Volume 1: CREATIVEARTS,
TI - Jepara Wooden Carving in the Digital Era
SN - 978-989-758-430-5
AU - Eskak E.
AU - Salma I.
PY - 2019
SP - 31
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0008525800310039