Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Sketch Furniture, Front, 2006. SLS synthetic resin, motion capture.


In this piece, the performative aspects of building are simplified into motion capture technology that allows anyone to sketch furniture in 3d and have it built through SLS in hours. Consideration and caution are abandoned for theoretically more gestural or raw furniture. In reality, the forms presented seem rudimentary, lamely archetypal works. The novelty of rapidly rendered hand gestures made manifest in a  real physical object would likely wear off once it is realized the furniture is neither functional nor particularly sturdy. Just for this alone it is proved useful: we must consider what this could mean as an omen for the future of rapid manufacturing processes. It has never been so easy to make manifest whims in real physical objects. The potential waste is unimaginable.

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