3D Printed Artworks

ANAT will use these pages to document all the artistic projects using 3D printing techniques that we can find; both for reference and for inspiration.  We are sure there are many more creative projects out there using these technologies – we’d love to hear from you if you know of any that should be included.
Here are some we’ve found so far (in no particular order):

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Theo Jansen on Shapeways: Theo Jansen, Netherlands.  Small scale version of Dutch kinetic artist’s “Strandbeests” (huge sculptures/machines that “walk” along the beach powered by the wind) are available for sale via Shapeways.

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 L’Artisan Electronique: Unfold with Tim Knapen, Belgium. A virtual pottery wheel which utilizes a 3d scanner and digital software to generate works of art which are then printed out in clay using a Rapman 3D printer.

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Tohoku Earthquake Sculpture: Luke Jerram, UK. A sculpture made to co ntemplate the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To create the sculpture a  seismogram of the earthquake was  rotated using CAD and then printed in 3D. The artwork represents 9 minutes of the earthquake.

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Reconstructed Reliquaries: Claire Oliver, New York.  A series of sculptures using rapid prototyping techniques, showing everyday objects formed by words.

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Entoforms: macouno, Netherlands. “Life, grown in the computer, printed in 3D, collected by macouno”.  Entoforms are limited issue collectable art prints inspired by insects, available for sale on www.entoforms.com.

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Hybride Male: Catharina van de Ven, Netherlands. Project made with Rhino software. Materialised in 3D print in black and white. Biggest size is printed in sandstone and spray painted in black metallic.

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Cube Sculpture: Neri Oxman, US.  A sculpture produced in collaboration with MIT materials science professor Craig Carter that  powerfully demonstrates the possibilities of 3-D printing. 

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Makerboting and Art: Youtube clip from Makerbot TV. Hear about painter Micah Ganske’s MakerBot-made sculptures and see how 3D animator Takeshi Murata is MakerBoting a 3D zoetrope.