The landmark project Nanorestart funded by EU Horizon 2020 could help preserve millions of pieces of modern and contemporary art.
Much is known about how to properly conserve traditional art – typically made of natural materials like wood and stone – but little is known about the preservation of contemporary art – increasingly digital and made from new materials. The work has been produced using 3D printers and is freely downloadable. This is a potentially ominous sign for today’s contemporary art, much of which is produced using 3D-printers and other rapid prototyping methods.Įngineer-turned-artist Tom Lomax has designed ‘Out of the Cauldron’ – an intricate, colourful piece of digital alchemy pushing the limits of 3D printing. Researchers from the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage subjected the artwork to accelerated testing, discovering that many 3D-printing technologies use materials that degrade particularly rapidly. In an unusual step for scientific research, an artwork has been produced specifically for the purpose of scientific experimentation. Leading scientists and artists are teaming up to produce 3D-printed artworks in order to research how modern art can be best preserved for future generations.
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