As a special guest of the LISTE Art Fair, HeK presents artists who utilise 3D modelling to explore the dialogue between the real and the virtual world.
HeK (House of electronic Arts Basel)
Exploiting the large database of user-created digital files within the online 3D-Printing community Thingiverse, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez & Julien Deswaef have created a bot that compiles the randomly selected files to produce improbable virtual sculptures. Similar to a modern-day cadaver exquis, these productions fall somewhere between fine art and electronic spam.
Algorithmic artbot Shiv Integer takes blueprints for 3D models, mashes them together into new shapes and then uploads them to the internet as new designs.
"How a Bot’s Bizarre, Useless Objects Became a 3D-Printing Controversy"
Illustration by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Julien Deswaef’s Shiv Intiger, which pulls freely licensed 3D-printing models and randomly meshes them together.