3d Printers Pronostication
Paddy Johnson (of Art Fag City fame) sticks her neck out in her L Magazine column and makes predictions for the art work in 2009.
Among the predictions is:
3-D Printing Technology is the New Photoshop: In 2001, artists like Lucas Samaras discovered photoshop filters littering galleries with art nobody cared about. It turns out common usage of the distortion tool isn't all that groundbreaking after all. Presenting artists with the opportunity to use these same sorts of technologies sculpturally, increasingly affordable printing techniques allows us all to stretch out photos of our faces and render them three-dimensionally. I predict this will inspire a remarkably bad, but ultimately short lived art-making fad exploring little more than what the technology does.
We can change the future! You read about it, now don't do it!
posted by Ethan at
8:40 AM
1 Comments:
There's a lot of interesting possibilities with 3D printing, but one thing that worries me is making it too easy for people to mindlessly generate crap. It's bad enough with all of the wasted paper and garbage generated with 2D printing. If these things ever become affordable enough that people have them in their home office, the Earth had better watch out.
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