Bryan Cera: Resurrecting Dead Objects. A few months ago the talented and brilliant Scott Kildall contacted me about collaborating on a project where we'd be resurrecting objects that have been lost - in this case Marcel Duchamp's favorite hand-carved chess set.
This set no longer exists save the archival photograph pictured above. The idea was not only to rebuild the lost objects, but to release open-source digital files to be 3D-printed by anyone interested in resurrecting the objects for themselves. In homage to the original set's owner, we decided to call this kind of re-animated, re-configured and re-claimed object a "Readymake. " Readymake: Duchamp Chess Set. I’ve been collaborating with Bryan Cera on a new project called: Readymake: Duchamp Chess Set.
It is close to completion — this is a preview. Laser Cowboys and the Fossils of the Future. One morning in November 2011, trucks were roaring down the Pan-American Highway, carrying loads of ore from mines in the Atacama Desert to the port town of Caldera, Chile.
The trucks screamed past a young goateed American paleontologist named Nicholas Pyenson, who was standing at the side of the road, gazing at a 250-meter-long strip of sandstone that construction workers had cleared in preparation for building new lanes. Pyenson, the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution, spends much of his time searching for fossils of whales. For over a year his Chilean colleague Mario Suárez had been nagging him to come to see whale fossils that had been exposed as construction workers widened the highway. Pyenson envisioned a few skull fragments wedged in a road cut—a very low priority. Berlin’s Museums Integrate 3D Printing & Scanning #3DxMuseums #3DThursday #3DPrinting. July 24, 2014 AT 2:00 am.
African Fossils. 3D scans turn fossils into rock stars. Video transcript The British Geological Survey says its online collection of almost 20,000 3D fossil scans is the first of its kind.
SOUNDBITE (English) DR. MIKE HOWE, CHIEF CURATOR AT THE BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (BGS), SAYING: "Nobody has attempted to put out for the public and for the whole academic community a large collection of 3D fossil models, so this is the first one world-wide that has ever been attempted. " Dr Mike Howe oversaw the mammoth task of scanning and photographing almost every fossil type found in Britain. Technician Michela Contessi says it was a time-consuming process that required attention to detail and great patience. Sept. 3 - Thousands of prehistoric fossils have been rescued from dusty museum archives and made available online as highly detailed 3D models, with plans afoot to also digitally scan dinosaur fossils.
Smithsonian X 3D. The Smithsonian is 3D-scanning the past for future generations. May.14, 2013. Interview with SF Asian Art Museum on Digital Fabrication Scanathons. Things are bubbling.
“Scanathons” are happening more often than you might think. At the Field Museum in Chicago. In New York at the Met (and my AMNH as well). And in San Francisco, I just learned, at the Asian Art Museum. In collaboration with museum staff (and sometimes without) people are coming in to photograph public collections – not to post on Flickr or Facebook but, instead, on public repositories for 3D files, like Thingiverse, so people can download and print them out for themselves. Chicago Public Library To Open 3D Printer Space. I think we can all agree that libraries are pretty awesome.
Now one library in Chicago is becoming even more awesome by offering 3D printing to the public. The Chicago Public Library is opening what it calls the CPL Innovation Lab on the third floor of the Harold Washington Library Center. The space will have three 3D printers, two laser cutters, a milling machine and a vinyl cutter. Alongside the hardware, the Innovation Lab will give the public access to a number of 3D printing software programs including Trimble Sketchup, Inkscape, Meshlab and Makercam. King’s Resting Place Recreated by 3D Printing. Kyle.Maxey posted on December 20, 2012 | Comment | 4837 views By all accounts, King Richard III’s reign was relatively unproductive.
Modern historians believe that this was mostly due to the dynastic struggle that we now know as the Wars of the Roses, of which Richard III’s house came out on the losing end. As is always true, the victors are afforded the opportunity to write the history of the day, and Richard’s character, (not to mention physical appearance) was besmirched by historians across the centuries…Even the great bard, Shakespeare, had few kind words for the King.
Recreating the Ancient Past at Harvard. Kyle.Maxey posted on December 11, 2012 | Comment | 2471 views Museum curators at Harvard’s Semitic Museum are using 3D modeling to undo a part of the destruction of the ancient Iraqi city of Nuzi that was sacked by the Assyrians nearly 3,300 years ago. “In a high-tech project that would have been impossible even four years ago, technicians are attempting to re-create a 2-foot-long ceramic lion that likely flanked an image of the goddess Ishtar in a temple in long-ago Nuzi, which is the modern archaeological site of Yorghan Tepe.” The most incredible aspect of this project is that the Semitic Museum owns just two parts of the ceramic lion: its front paws and a larger segment that makes up the lion’s rump and hind legs. It’s believes that the temple where the lion was found was home to four lion statues, two sitting and two crouching.
Fortunately for Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania has a similar, intact statue which they have been able to borrow and use as a base model. Scientists Are Building Robot Dinosaurs Out Of 3-D Printed Fossils. 3D Printing of Cuneiform Tablets. Images from this website can be used freely.
Please credit project participants. Project Members: Natasha Gangjee, Hod Lipson, David I. 3D Petrie Museum. Could 3D Printing Save the Public Library System? Mixed Opinions. Smithsonian X 3D. 3D Scanning and Printing a Chess Set at the Brooklyn Museum #3DThursday #3DPrinting. October 10, 2013 AT 1:00 am David Huerta at the Brooklyn Museum shared with us a recent project: 3D Scanning and Printing a Chess Set at the Brooklyn Museum.
Earlier this year, we started exploring how 3D printing could enhance the visitor experience and began by introducing it on that month’s sensory tour. In addition to tours, we also host film screenings and as my colleague Elisabeth mentioned, this Saturday, September 28th we’ll be hosting a special screening of Brooklyn Castle, a film about a local school with a talented chess team that crushed more chess championships than any other school in the US. Impresión 3D en el Departamento de Educación de un museo. La impresión 3D está cada vez más presente en museos y centros de arte, no solo como herramienta educativa, sino también para favorecer la inclusión y la accesibilidad al arte de personas con discapacidad.
Hemos tenido la suerte de hablar directamente con una de las personas que está siendo pionera en estas aplicaciones en el Brooklyn Museum: David Huerta (@huertanix). David Huerta Él mismo nos cuesta su experiencia en la siguiente entrevista. 1. El Brooklyn Museum ha incorporado la impresión 3D en sus Sensory Tours (visitas sensoriales), ¿en qué consiste exactamente? Los Sensory tours son visitas que amplían la experiencia del usuario más allá de la vista: se habla con más detalle de las obras, se van pasando muestras de los materiales con las que han sido creadas (mármol, acero, etc.) y, ahora, también se pasan réplicas en 3D de algunas esculturas, en un tamaño manejable. 2. 800-year-old Buddhist statue restored with help of 3D printing. May 5, 2014 The emergence of 3D scanning and printing allowed people scan and print identical copies of any old objects.