“Linked”
Artist Statement for the World’s First Collaborative 3D Sculpture
Jeff de Boer • July 2013
The distance between art and technology is beginning to not just close; it is beginning to merge. The emergence of the 3D printer has given individuals who would not normally consider themselves makers the power to create in three dimensions. Now that the masses can make anything, the big question will always be, “what is worth making?”
The 3D printer right now is a little bit like a television without content provided by a broadcast network. The truth is, it is no longer necessary to have a centralized network for content, as each individual can now create the content in an open source environment.
“Linked” will be the world’s first collaborative 3D sculpture ever produced. The idea is to demonstrate the collective power of individuals as links in an open source content generator.
I have designed a standardized linkage system on which individuals can apply their own content, print it out and send it to us so as to be linked to an ever-growing hanging sculpture. In the end, each link will be unique, creating a vast gallery of colors and images. The links’ wide range of colors will act like pixels and can be arranged by a guest artist to create an overall image.
This sculpture can be arranged over and over by different guest artists, each time generating a unique overall image. The sculpture comes together in an additive way, not unlike the process of 3D printing itself.
Artist Statement for the World’s First Collaborative 3D Sculpture
Jeff de Boer • July 2013
The distance between art and technology is beginning to not just close; it is beginning to merge. The emergence of the 3D printer has given individuals who would not normally consider themselves makers the power to create in three dimensions. Now that the masses can make anything, the big question will always be, “what is worth making?”
The 3D printer right now is a little bit like a television without content provided by a broadcast network. The truth is, it is no longer necessary to have a centralized network for content, as each individual can now create the content in an open source environment.
“Linked” will be the world’s first collaborative 3D sculpture ever produced. The idea is to demonstrate the collective power of individuals as links in an open source content generator.
I have designed a standardized linkage system on which individuals can apply their own content, print it out and send it to us so as to be linked to an ever-growing hanging sculpture. In the end, each link will be unique, creating a vast gallery of colors and images. The links’ wide range of colors will act like pixels and can be arranged by a guest artist to create an overall image.
This sculpture can be arranged over and over by different guest artists, each time generating a unique overall image. The sculpture comes together in an additive way, not unlike the process of 3D printing itself.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2013
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