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"
"At Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 in London, Julien Deswaef presented a talk exploring how Git can aid graphic designers and other artists in their daily processes, as well as pinpointing Git's shortcomings for that user community."
Illustration by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Julien Deswaef’s Shiv Intiger, which pulls freely licensed 3D-printing models and randomly meshes them together.
« Depending on how you look at it, Word Wars is either: a) a sad comment on how comically war-like our times truly are; b) a way to make reading the news fun; or c) an insult to the important work done by the Fourth Estate. »
"Julien Deswaef presented a session on using distributed version control in design projects. […]". A nice wrap up by Nathan Willis of the Desgin With Git presentation at LGM13, Madrid
« Avec le numérique, c'est comme avec la lithographie : il ne faut jamais se contenter de reproduire. C'est un outil pour réaliser quelque chose de neuf, de particulier » − Franck Bordas
“I’ve made a bot that ‘likes’ everything on Facebook,” said Julien Deswaef, an artist and coder that I had just met in early 2012 during a workshop hosted by Marius Watz at iMal in Brussels. Marius was the big name at this event, however it was the lesser-known artists that really blew my mind that week, and Julien was one of them.
« de uH Bench maken is makkelijker dan een Ikea-kast in elkaar te steken »
« Let’s say you want to be friendly on Facebook.
Really friendly.
Happily, there is a bot for you, one designed to enable a degree of positivity-spreading that almost certainly transcends your puny human ability to be upbeat. »
"En écho à cette composition subtile, Julien Deswaef, dans un autre registre, a constitué une interprétation ludique et interactive de la démarche plastique de Noémie Goldberg en créant un jeu vidéo - Nogold - qui fait référence au surnom de l'artiste Noémie Goldberg. Il renvoie à la fois à la finalité d'un jeu vidéo (gagner des points et accumuler des bonus) et aborde la question du lien entre l'homme et les nouvelles technologies."