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A vintage photograph depicting wrestlers, sadly not annotated with their names. The lengthy exposure has given them starkly pale skin and muscles picked out only by shadow as the detail is lost, and I cannot help but wonder how long they had to hold the pose - an action scene which today would be captured in a fraction of a second as it happened, forced through early photography’s limitations into a static moment of careful balance and taut pressure.
Princess X, Constantin Brâncuși
Two 3D Printing Based Art Exhibitions
A good reason to keep up with netartnet …
First, Aura of the Synthetic by Matt Chalker, recreates well known art into minitures and displayed in a shop window:
Aura of the Synthetic, is an exact 1:12 scale replica of a museum gallery created using a variety of digital manufacturing and rapid prototyping tools and techniques. The exhibition includes replicas of Balloon Dog (Jeff Koons, 1994-2005,) Steel Structure (Sol LeWitt, 1975/1976, SFMOMA,) Tire (Roy Lichtenstein, 1962, MoMA,) New York City I (Piet Mondrian, 1942, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou,) Banana (Andy Warhol, ca. 1966, Private Collection,) Noguchi Table (Isamu Noguchi, 1947,) and Nelson Platform Bench(George Nelson, 1946). The exhibition also includes two 1:12 scale 3D prints of Chalker, examining his work. Chalker utilizes his background in Art History and Engineering to digitally recreate famous artworks with a variety of 2D and 3D software. He then uses digital manufacturing tools such as vinyl cutters, laser cutters and 3D printers to take the objects from the virtual world to the physical world. Chalker selected a scale of 1:12 because it is the traditional scale for dollhouses, where one inch represents a foot in the “real world.”
The exhibition title references Walter Benjamin’s 1936 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In this work, Benjamin uses the phrase, “the aura of the authentic” in reference to the value of experiencing real works in person over photographic reproductions. In Aura of the Synthetic, Chalker asks what happens to this critical theory when the reproductions are much more accurate than a photograph. Aura of the Synthetic playfully questions what is real and what it means to experience a piece of art.
Second, Open Shape, where artists create objects which can be ordered through the 3D Printing service Shapeways:
Exhibition of 3D printed objects by Alex Dolan, Yngve Holen, Matthew Johnstone & Max Wérner, Katja Novitskova, Ilya Smirnov and Jasper Spicero in collaboration with The Composing Rooms.
Many thanks to Anthony Antonellis for the heads up.
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It was bound to happen, proving how all tech eventually gets sexualized in some way ….
Website hosts 3D printing files to make your own sex toys …
MATAERIAL
A 3D Printing system that can create forms without the hindrance of gravity - video embedded below:
A brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures. Conventional methods of additive manufacturing have been affected both by gravity and printing environment: creation of 3D objects on irregular, or non-horizontal surfaces has so far been treated as impossible . By using innovative extrusion technology we are now able to neutralize the effect of gravity during the course of the printing process. This method gives us a flexibility to create truly natural objects by making 3D curves instead of 2D layers. Unlike 2D layers that are ignorant to the structure of the object, the 3D curves can follow exact stress lines of a custom shape. Finally, our new out of the box printing method can help manufacture structures of almost any size and shape.
More at the project’s website here
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That is what the selfie is! It marks a time when someone feels beautiful and self assured.
