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Them's fighting words

Brendan Reid, No more heroes anymore, 3D Polymer Print, 2010

The printed works of artist Brendan Reid are developed through formal explorations of oscillating spaces. Reid's 3D printed knuckle duster No more heroes anymore, 2010 initiates a shifting from graphic image to graphic object and back again.

Already made

Rob Myers, Urinal, 3D file

Like Duchamp Myers has enabled an art work to exist by an idea alone. In keeping with Duchamp's iconic Fountain (1917) the artist (Myers) has removed his hand from the work - albeit by employing another to create a potential object to exist, rather than appropriating an existing object and nominating it as art.

Myers Urinal was created by Chris Webber a software engineer who generated the model as three dimensional image so that the digital file could be physically rendered by a 3D printer. The file has been made available by the artist for anyone to download, print and sign (see thingverse download page). Alternatively (if you don't happen to have a 3D printer to hand) Myers 3D printed Urinal is also available to purchase through shapeways. Although technically Duchamp did not completely remove the Urinal's possible function I do believe Myers Urinal to be purely ornament.

Another wry smile

Mike Ruiz, Replaced Mona Lisa, 2011, Oil on Canvas

As described by Mike Ruiz;

The Mona Lisa with the lady selected then put through Content-Aware Fill (a Photoshop CS5 tool that automatically generates content based on the existing surrounding content of the image and fills in selected area). The resulting image is a potential landscape as interpreted by the software. The image was sent to a painting manufacturer in China where an oil painting was produced.

Human Interface

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Inspired selection

Mark Pernice & Christian Hanson, Photo Booth Mask, 2010

Originally a distorted portrait captured using Apple's Photo Booth application Pernice and Hanson construct the recorded image distortion as a three-dimensional mask.

Digital Recliner

Nina Saunders, 'ever onwards' 2001

The interventionist work by Saunders and in particular 'ever onwards' presents the physically rendered form of Photoshops liquifying filter. The extrusion of the chairs arm beyond its usual form literally creates a slippage from one space to another.

Virtual Volume

Rob Matthews, Wikipedia

Artist Robert Matthews has printed and bound 5000 pages of Wikipedia into one physical volume. The physicality of the virtual resource draws attention to its now 'virtually' redundant function, reminding us that some words were never meant for print

'Burning' a digital image.

Helmut Smit, Dead Pixel on Google Earth, 2008 - 2010, 82 x 82 cm burnt square, Photo by Jeroen Wandemaker

Helmut Smits presents the appearance of a dead pixel when seen through google earth from 1 km above. Here the digital meets the physical as Glitchy land art.

Virtually concrete

Marc Owens Avatar Machine

"I'd rather be a fake somebody than a real nobody"

-Tom Ripley

There is a five second segment (between 2:00 and 2:05) of footage where the avatar character enters a stairwell and descends a concrete corridor. For a split second the appearance of the virtual and physical world become inseparable.