Secret Support

2019

20 mm anodized aluminum tubes. Sculptures vary in sizes up to 40x30x120xcm

Secret Support is a series of seven sculptures that examine the technology and industry of 3D printing. The sculptures appropriate the form of plastic structures that are automatically generated by a proprietary algorithm to support a 3D model while printing on a resin 3D printer. The work is part of the PhD-project Unmaking Abstractions which explores how mathematical, geometric and algorithmic abstractions shape things made with 3D modeling technology.Secret Support continues research from the works Riegelbau and Terra Nullius, focusing on the relationship between technological development, the formal language of support structures, and the craft and labor involved in creating them.

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