17,408 things 7knotwind likes Explore more popular stuff on Tumblr →

artstech:

This is bananas. (and has me more excited than I should admit in public, but whatever.) 

Way to go, Don Undeen and the Met for being open to this kind of thing! Hope museums become spaces for this type of innovative culture jamming/hacking. 

- Julia

Members of the Museum’s digital media, education, and curatorial staff will join the artists and members of the staff from MakerBot Industries for this invitation-only 3-D scanning and printing hackathon. Our goal will be to assess the potential of these technologies to engage artists and visitors with the Museum’s collections. Artists will explore different collection areas—specifically, the American Wing, Asian Art, Oceanic Art, and European Sculpture and Decorative Arts—and discuss the works of art with Museum curators and educators. Using basic digital cameras, they will photograph selected objects, then convert the photographs into digital 3-D models using freely available software. Finally, through alteration, transformation, and combination, the artists will create new works, which will be printed on MakerBot’s low-cost, open-source Replicator printer. As a group, we’ll look at the results, discuss the creative process, and consider the opportunities these technologies hold for the Met and our audiences.