3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers by Hoskins Stephen

Author:Hoskins, Stephen [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474248747
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2018-04-21T21:00:00+00:00

CASE STUDY

MAT COLLISHAW

Mat Collishaw is a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths College in the late 1980s. He participated in Freeze (1988) and since his first solo exhibition in 1990 has exhibited widely internationally. Mat kindly agreed to be interviewed after we interviewed Sebastian Burdon, who assisted Mat with the figure for his zoetropes.

I began the interview by asking Mat what led him to using 3D printing in his work. He explained:

—It wasn’t so much a choice as imperative to a project that I was doing – I decided I wanted to start making these 3D zoetropes, and I first began experimenting using a record deck, using some little plasticine and blue tack figures on it and a little strobe I bought from Maplin. It seemed to work and I got an idea of what I wanted to do and that involved figures both animal and human, and it occurred to me that, to get any kind of accurate registration of my figures from one to the next – because it’s basically an animation – the only way to reproduce them accurately was to use 3D printing, which was something that I was kind of aware of, that I knew was out there but that was still in its infancy as far as the quality goes and also very expensive. But I thought it would probably help me out with that project, having tried to hand model some of those figures, it gave an aesthetic to the work that I wasn’t that interested in. It had a very hand made / home made type of feel to it, and that was a distraction from what I wanted to do. I wanted all the prints to be consistent and accurate. And that was all taking place around 2007.

A zoetrope is an early pre-film animation device producing an illusion of motion when a sequence of drawings are viewed through slits in a carousel drum that is rotated. I wanted to include 3D-printed zoetropes in this book because zoetropes are not so much about 3D printing (demonstrating how to make impossible structures etc.). They were 3D printed because they couldn’t be done in any other way. What is interesting about these zoetropes is that the 3D printing is almost incidental or a by-product (i.e., the zoetrope is what’s important and the 3D printing is the way of getting there).

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