Description
This sculpture elective is designed in order to expand the tool use of the traditional sculptor into the 21st century world of digital sculpture. The course will incorporate parametric modeling and rendering, input technologies, and 3D rapid prototyping into the pre-existing metal casting facility and welding studio at the Kansas City Art Institute. Most importantly, this extraordinary technology for sculptors will provide a link between contemporary aesthetics and computer science and encourage collaboration across the Arts and Technology Building and the Volker Studios. The concepts and ideas of the contemporary artist have increasingly become dependent on the computer for gathering and developing visual information. The digital has certainly made itself present in our culture. In an effort to interface more easily with new technologies and move beyond traditional limitations it is necessary for the artist to “design and intervene” at every possible stage of the form-making process.