Artificial Sculpture

From: Michael Rees (rees@michaelrees.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 20:18:43 EET


Dear List,

Please view the on line documnetation for my new exhibition Artificial
Sculpture. go to:
www.michaelrees.com
follow the links to Artificial Sculpture.

The exhibit opened NOvember 19 and continues through January 8th. At
the opening, rp-ml member Scott Sutter was in attendance.
the exhibition was made possible through the help of many people notably

Mark Schanze of Civco Medical instruments and Wendy Lainge silicon
artist.
Other donors and contributors included the IBM corporarion, the National

Endowment for the Arts, Chris Burnett (artist and programmer), Brian
Burnett,
Juhl Wojahn, and others.

A multimedia CD ROM/DVD Rom catalogue will be available in February.
This includes interviews with many of the people who worked on the
exhibit
as well as videos and animations of the project.

Not only was the exhibit realized with the help of rapid prototyping
and silicon molding, it also includes a Sculptural User Interface®.
This is a program in early beta which uses text to create sculptures. By

inputing any kind of text, from  simple letters to a long essay,
sculptures
are assembled from pre-existing or user defined 3d files. Each object in

this linguistic chain would have a parent child relationship and be
positionable
within certain parameters, much like a sculptor would arrange and
position
parts of a sculpture. Ultimately, the user would be able to output such
constructions to RP. The program will eventually be available either as
open source or as a licensed application.

Please enjoy!!

best,
Michael rees
rprocks@michaelrees.com
www.michaelrees.com

For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/



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