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The two images above yield\u00a0from a search of the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n
The image directly above is the only image that appears more than once in the search results.<\/p>\n
Most of the images I have seen of mis-printed objects are captured while the piece is still on the printer, hot off the press, hot off the mess.<\/p>\n
It is curious to think of what they might have looked like in the soft virtuality\u00a0of the software they were conceived in.<\/p>\n
The following image is my concept in virtuality.<\/p>\n
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I have learned, as I’m sure many of you have too, that there are types of objects that just cannot be printed on the 3D printers in the CAL.<\/p>\n
Certain things\u00a0cannot be printed either because of design dynamics and dimension, or because the\u00a0CAL lab aids are not keen on\u00a0severely disrupting the mechanisms of the printers<\/p>\n
while many other people also intend to print,<\/p>\n
because printing takes time, and is therefore, a\u00a0part of the priority of this creation process.<\/p>\n
Lately I have been thinking about the\u00a0glitch pieces\u00a0\u00a0I’ve been gathering as sort of embodiments of wasted of time, manifestations of error being let be too long.<\/p>\n
In the next six photographs I have attempted to illuminate these objects as anything but wasted time.<\/p>\n
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The filament lines shown in the images above remind me of the traced scan-line, the shadow of the dance that occurs when a person is 3D scanned.<\/p>\n
Although the lines are different for these objects,<\/p>\n
as the (re)productive motion and exchange between things is conveyed in a sort of plastic electrocardiogram showing the death of intention.<\/p>\n
\u00a0These glitch pieces posses shadow like qualities in more ways that one, in that the objects re-present more than just what appears physically.<\/p>\n
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In the shadows of these objects it becomes clear not only how they look, but how they can be seen.<\/p>\n
\u00a0I have come to know these glitch objects as anything other than filled with lost potentiality.<\/p>\n
I have been exploring them for weeks, feeling out how they break, how they bend, how they carry the weight of themselves and how they do not.<\/p>\n
Through this process I have learned that there is much to be seen in what did, but more importantly, what did not occur on the print bed.<\/p>\n
The glitch objects shown above are filled with space where there was once intentionality.<\/p>\n
These unintentional objects convey what the printers create when confronted with the unknown, what the machine does when it does not know what to do.<\/p>\n
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