Current debate rages around the naming of The Anthropocene, the evolution of intelligent machines, and the contradictions inherent in a material critique of our technocapitalist civilisation.
The 3D Printer is a metaphor for these weirdest of times: a technology with the capacity to channel creative endeavour, through digital processes, into the reformation of raw matter excavated from ancient geological eras.
We propose #Additivism as a new movement in technological and artistic activism that contends with these concerns. The 3D Additivist Manifesto + Cookbook is a project that blurs the boundaries between art, engineering, science fiction, and digital aesthetics. The Manifesto is produced by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke in the form of a text and a video with sound design by Andrea Young. It calls for you - artists, activists, designers, scientists, and critical engineers - to accelerate the 3D printer and other Additivist technologies to their absolute limits and beyond into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird.
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Current debate rages around the naming of The Anthropocene, the evolution of intelligent machines, and the contradictions inherent in a material critique of our technocapitalist civilisation.
The 3D Printer is a metaphor for these weirdest of times: a technology with the capacity to channel creative endeavour, through digital processes, into the reformation of raw matter excavated from ancient geological eras.
We propose #Additivism as a new movement in technological and artistic activism that contends with these concerns. The 3D Additivist Manifesto + Cookbook is a project that blurs the boundaries between art, engineering, science fiction, and digital aesthetics. The Manifesto is produced by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke in the form of a text and a video with sound design by Andrea Young. It calls for you - artists, activists, designers, scientists, and critical engineers - to accelerate the 3D printer and other Additivist technologies to their absolute limits and beyond into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2015
- Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday Mar 26th, 2015
- Original Url: http://additivism.org/manifesto
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Work Credits:
- Daniel Rourke, Creator
- Morehshin Allahyari, Creator
- Andrea Young, video sound design
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Artist Statement
The 3D Additivist Manifesto + forthcoming Cookbook blur the boundaries between art, engineering, science fiction, and digital aesthetics. We call for you - artists, activists, designers, scientists, and critical engineers - to accelerate the 3D printer and other Additivist technologies to their absolute limits and beyond into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird.
Additivism can emancipate us. Additivism will eradicate us.
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