Joanna Wrzaszczyk, Nicholas Bratton, Ross Goodwin, Maria Fang, Songee Hahn, Lutfiadi Rahmanto, Martin Romero

The project is a collection of 3D printed objects made by the students of Sculpting Data Into Everyday Objects class.

Description

This is a collection of four 3D printed objects made by the students of the Sculpting Data Into Everyday Objects class taught by Scott Leinweber and Esther Cheung. Every object uses a different data set and is unique in its nature. All objects were modeled in Rhinoceros software and 3D printed at AMS.

1. 'Choker For The Urban Listener' – 3D printed neckpiece to hold earbuds in place. In contrast to the piece's utility, the design suggests a pyschosocial critique of public sound space by portable audio technologies. Project by Nicholas Bratton

2. 'Traveler's Lamp' – visualizes the traveling salesman problem between a set of 3D printed node-cities. Each city-node is designed based on a description of a chosen cities from the Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities. The lamp is a three-dimensional set of vertices enclosed in a laser cut plexiglass form with a custom made wooden stand. The vertices are connected with a thin wire to LEDs, that visualize a computer algorithm (running on Raspberry Pi) approximating the traveling salesman problem in real time between the node-cities. Project by Joanna Wrzaszczyk & Ross Goodwin

3. 'What a Waste' – a 3D printed trash can that represents the data of the percentage of the top 20 countries with mismanaged plastic waste as protrusions inside the trash can, and the data of plastic debris found in various locations in the ocean as holes in the trash can's walls. The protrusion adds difficulty to the act of depositing and clearing trash, and the holes are intended to let trash fall out. Project by Maria Fang & Martin Romero

4. 'The Godwit that Misses Its Flock' – is a decorative art that takes shape of a bar-tailed godwit, which has astonishing migration route between New Zealand and Alaska. Being cloistered in a room, this bird longs to join its friends. Alas, it can only rotate itself and point to the location of its migrating flock. Project by Lutfiadi Rahmanto & Soni Hahn

Classes

Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects, Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects