Inside Out: Rapid Prototyped miniature Sculpture

Inside Out is a unique
experimental exhibition, exploiting communication technologies to transmit
sculptures across the world as digital files, and then to produce them remotely
through state of the art Rapid Prototyping 3D printing methods. It will be
shown at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society’s  The Poly (http://www.thepoly.org/) 24
Church Street, Falmouth as part of the Cornwall Design Season (www.cornwalldesignseason.co.uk). The show will be held between the 29th March and the 2nd
of April,10.am-4.00pm with a Private View on Friday 1st April.
 
Design
and manufacturing have been revolutionised by these new digital processes and
their ability to instantly turn a design into a three dimensional object. There
are now opportunities to create extraordinary objects and forms which were
previously impossible to produce or difficult to envisage.
 
Inside Out is both title and theme for this international
touring exhibition, which focuses on emerging digital design techniques and the
growth of sophisticated rapid prototyping tools and methods. The Exhibition
examines the use of stereo-lithography (3D printing) technologies to create a
touring exchange exhibition of miniature sculptures, simultaneously launched in
two countries:  Britain and
Australia, showing the work of 43 artists from both countries. 
The miniature sculptures were created on Computer Aided Design systems by
invited sculptors as virtual objects, and then sent over the internet from an
Artist Group and University Art Schools in Australia (RMIT, Melbourne, UTS,
Sydney and Art Technology Coalition) to the UK, as a series of numbers to be
physically rendered or materialised using 3D printing in a analogous fashion to
Star Trek’s “Holodeck”. The same process also happened in reverse from the
UK Art Schools (DMU, Manchester Metropolitan University and Falmouth College of
the Arts) to the Antipodes.  The Object Gallery in Sydney
launched the full show on 5 June 2010, it has since been shown at Phoenix
Square Arts Centre
in Leicester and in Manchester at Manchester Metropolitan University’s  Pavement Gallery
 
The theme, Inside Out, represents an exploration of
the boundary between the virtual and the physical, and of the different
creative methods possible in this new form of sculptural realisation, through
an exchange exhibition between art school centres and artist’s groups in  two countries.  It is intended that Inside Out should
encourage further debate on issues surrounding future rapid prototyping
technologies: environmental, aesthetic and conceptual issues currently being
investigated via research and practice.
 
The Inside Out exhibition is, in effect, a
visual documentation of new practices across the three-dimensional spectrum in
art and design and a signpost of future directions. Inside Out sought to
provide a significant selection of emerging and established artists and
designers, in both analogue and digital media, with the opportunity to
experience and explore emerging digital design techniques and rapid prototyping
tools and methods and to venture outside their usual medium. How they
interpreted the theme Inside Out was
left open to them.
 
The exchange began
with the concept of creating a set of sculptures, with each sculpture being
capable of fitting in a small box 
(6cm x 6cm x 6cm).  After
the sculptures had been created as virtual 3D computer-generated objects, their
respective data files were transmitted across the Internet.
 
 The received files were then  ‘printed’ as physical objects by the
process of rapid prototyping in the reciprocal countries. Creating virtual 3D
objects and then transmitting the files as data sets, before they were
physically actualized, meant that the artists involved may not necessarily have
had sight of the resulting physical sculptures before the exhibition. Tactile
properties were therefore imagined rather than tested and the emerging forms
were not constrained by gravity or specific demands of production as with
conventional sculpture.
 
Contact:
 
Dr Justin
Marshall
Associate
Professor of Digital Craft
 
University
College Falmouth
Design Centre,
Tremough Campus,
Penryn,
Cornwall. TR10 9EZ, UK.
01326 253 689
[email protected]  
 
www.autonomatic.org.uk 
www.automake.co.uk 
www.bespokeproject.org/
 
 
 


Artists
 
De Montfort University
 
Guy Bingham
Annie Cattrell
Bruce Gernand
Ann Marie Shillito
Martin Rieser
 
Manchester Metropolitan University
 
Keith Brown
Brass Art [Chara
Lewis, Kristin
Mojsiewicz, Anneke
Pettican]
Brendan Reid
John Hyatt
Brigitte Jurack
Danny Richards
 
University College Falmouth
incorporating Dartington College of Arts
 
Tavs Jorgensen
Justin Marshall
Drummond Masterton
Peter Randall Page
Adam Shear
 
Art Technology Coalition (Australia)
 
Martine Corompt
Paul Fletcher
Mark Guglielmetti
Lycette Bros.
Shiralee Saul
Clarie Smith
 
University of Technology Sydney
 
Chris Bowman
Jacqueline Gothe
Ian Gwilt
Cecilia Heffer
Lawrence Wallen
 
RMIT University, Melbourne
 
Simon Perry
Greg Creek
Fleur Summers
Carolyn Eskdale
Scott Mitchell
Matthew Morris
 
 
 
Open Section (Antipodes)
 
Keith Armstrong
(AUS)
Michele Barker and
Anna Munster (AUS)
Brit Bunkley (NZ)
James Charlton
(NZ)
Dylan Fowler (AUS)
Jules Moloney
(AUS)
Noel Richards
(AUS)
Marie Sierra (AUS)
 
Open Section (UK)
 
Kevin Badni
Michelle Brown
Michael Eden  
Anthony Eland
Jane Prophet