Caitlin Skelcey is an object maker working and teaching 2D/3D Digital Foundations at SUNY Buffalo State College. She is also the coordinator for the Buffalo State Tech Hub (Digital Fabrication Lab) which specializes in 3D printing, modeling, 3D scanning, rendering and laser cutting for the college.
Caitlin earned her MFA in Metals at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2017 and BFAs in both Metals and Jewelry Design and Painting from Kendall College of Art and Design (2011).
With a passion for making and medical technology, she uses the body as the site for her work and is inspired by her own augmented physicality. Through digital and traditional practices, her jewelry prosthetics aim to blur the boundaries of human biology and machine, and question the nature of the human relationship to the artificial.
As a traditionally trained jeweler, she is anchored in a love for process and tactile material knowledge and fusing 3D printing technology with traditional adornment and craft practices to critique issues of identity within our transhuman culture.
Her work celebrates the fabricated new nature of the cyborg; blurring the boundaries of human biology and machine and questioning the nature of the human relationship to the artificial.
