3D printer Artist

Homework #9 (3) Research an artist who uses 3D printing creatively and blog about her/him.

Stephanie Lempert

Stephanie Lempert’s studio practice concentrates on various systems of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. She employs a wide variety of media including sculpture, photography, and video to focus the viewer on small moments and memories, making them discover that all is not as it appears at first glance. Often using humor, the Artist invites the viewer to go beyond what they recognize as reality by immersing them in a created environment. “My work revolves around human language and how language is always surrounding us,” says Lempert, “how it layers our everyday experiences. I explore storytelling and memories, and how we share our experiences with the people that surround us.”

Lempert has taken on personal histories, overheard snippets of conversations, treasured memories, and examples of environmental impact and historic preservation in her works of art. “I know that there are limitless options,” she says, “when it comes to communicating visually. While studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, I realized that the interaction between the art and the viewer was what I reacted to. That synergy, that communication, is what inspired me to become a fine artist.” Attempting to infuse her works of art with human emotions, Lempert weaves true stories, literally and figuratively reconstructing memories and moments in such a way as to create a repository for the next generation’s hopes and dreams. She creates a surface on which memories, pleasant or unpleasant, are indelibly etched, just as our own memories are imprinted in the recesses of our minds.

Lempert is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.  Her work has been exhibited and collected domestically and internationally at establishments such as A.I.R. Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami, New Britain Museum of American Art, Loop Art Fair,Lmak Projects, Stella Art Gallery, The Moscow World Fine Art Fair, and The 2006 New York Video Festival. - Biography from Stephanie's Website

My continued fascination with methods of communication, and more narrowly with language, lead to an exploration in the intertwined nature of cherished mementos and the childhood reminiscences that make them precious. Each piece consolidates complex and multifaceted family narratives held in the memory of the real life storytellers and connects them to a single inanimate object. Each object weaves stories, literally and figuratively reconstructing the memories in such a way as to create a repository. These touchstones are forged from the very words they emote. My first sculpture exhibition, Reconstructed Reliquaries, reveals for the viewer beautifully delicate, true size objects created from handwritten texts.-- Stephanie's explanation of the collection

Full Scale RGB Book

http://www.lostateminor.com/2012/09/07/a-full-scale-rgb-book/

Lesson plan using scanning

Homework #8 (4) Create a dedicated lesson plan for students/children that allows for them to explore scanning creatively.

Through scanning, using previously painted and drawn works, students will learn that collaging can be done digitally, creating a new art work from existing works.

lesson plan using printing

Homework #8 (3) Create a dedicated lesson plan for students/children that allows for them to explore printing creatively.

Title: Printing as an Art Form
Activity: Manipulating images through printing
Number in Group and Age: twenty fifth grade students
Objective: Through printing, using various printer settings and different types of papers students will learn that an image can be altered in an artful way.
Materials: Matte Paper, Glossy Paper, Computers, Printers, Images
Time Allotted: one-two 50 minute classes

At the beginning of class, a demo would be given regarding the proper use of a printer and the appropriate printer settings necessary to achieve desired results. Once the students understand how to print in different ways they will be broken up into groups of 3 or 4. Each group will be given a graphic image and will be given a challenge. The challenge will be to create four different versions of the same image using the printing settings and different types of paper. Once completed they will hang their works in a sequence in the front of the room and present their two favorite different versions and explain how they made such different works using the printer.

Printing

Homework #8 (1) We started to discuss this in class. Go back to your notes and share your thoughts on your experiences with the printing process. Try to respond to those 2 or 3 questions: What are you learning about printing (as a process)? Where do you see its creative potential? And what did you learn about photography?

This experience of exploring printing as an art form and as process was definitely beneficial for me. Prior to our printing lesson I had never thought about printing as anything more than a technical act of transforming a digital document, image or graphic onto paper. After studying advertising in my undergraduate education and receiving instruction as to how to print I assumed that I understood printing and how setting up a photoshop document for print works. It turns out what I knew was merely the intro to the basics of printing, which shocked me because I thought I knew a lot about printing.

After listening to the presentation in class I realized that there is so much more to printing than the basic printer settings, and after exploring printing myself I realized that printing can make or break a piece of printed art work and can be an artful process. Printing can enhance a visual bringing out details and excentuating colors if done correctly. If done incorrectly printing can butcher a visual. Although many parts of the printing process are technical and the use of settings and adjustments it is also a visual experimental process, seeing what settings and what types of paper are best for the print.

I believe that printing has limited creative potential. Although printing can enhance an existing image or detract from it, the image is the point of focus and printing can only do so much to an image or graphic. Possible manipulating printed pieces could result in a new creative piece but physically printing as a process is too restricting.

Through exploring printing I ended up learning a lot about photography. I realized that in my life photography that I experience is primarily digital on social media (Facebook, instantagram) or in libraries on google. No matter how much I love photos in my iPhoto library I never print them. The act of printing photographs seems pointless to me unless they are going into a scrapbook or are to be framed. Regardless of my aforementioned disregard for printing as a creative process I must admitt that printing an image really changes the image's aesthetic. It truly transforms the piece, yet it really only transforms how the viewer experiences the piece not the underlying aesthetic of the work.