Video: Shane Hope's abstract collages of thousands of 3D printed details
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
New York-based scientist and artist Shane Hope creates colorful and incredibly intricate collage paintings using 3D printing to model and materialize the tiny elements that make up his canvases.
Hope uses special molecular modeling software and writes his own codes to generate designs for nano-molecular structures. The main idea of his work is to reverse the process of digitizing information, literally turning bits and pixels back into atoms and molecules. In addition, he seeks to draw the attention of scientists to the fact that new 3D technologies are not only useful from a practical point of view, but can also become an indispensable tool for theoretical studies of nanoscale objects.
For his own purposes, the artist adapted several models of 3D printers, which he personally reassembled into a single printing system. Hope puts together thousands of flat and three-dimensional details to end up with complex pictorial compositions depicting organic and inorganic, speculative and theoretically grounded, absurd and abstract.
Most of the works that Hope combines in a series with titles based on neologisms and alliteration (such as Qubit-Built Quilts or Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs), can be described as sculptural reliefs - something between abstract painting, collage and diorama. Some elements of the composition are essentially tiny sculptures, while Hope creates large spots of color using the more traditional collage technique of flat details of various shapes.
Hope envisions the future as a chaotic accumulation of endlessly mutating human and technical hybrids and seeks to convey this feeling in his paintings. Sometimes it deliberately leaves printing defects and random visual effects resulting from system crashes, because such errors make computer programs and hardware work more human.
The artist believes that soon people will be able to model objects and materials from scratch - atom by atom. “It's one thing to move the pixels according to an algorithm, and even liquid plastic, for that matter, will start quite differently when they are real atoms,” Hope writes on his website.
In the meantime, theoretical scientists are working in this exciting direction, employees of a Polish company that distributes 3D printers are trying to save the life of a wounded penguin at the Warsaw Zoo.
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