The institution that I decided to research was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology because I feel that I have been reading more interesting articles about their wonderful facilities and their new innovative technologies. I just did some research and looked up some youtube videos, and they have this program called the "InFORM" which is remote collaborator with a kinetic camera. It is a surface of flattened pins that acts as various three-dimensional shapes and the pins raise in response to your movements with the help of the sensors of a hacked Microsoft Kinect.
Source retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtfD_rJ2hE
As an artist, I wanted to research another form of technology that was more art based from MIT. I stumbled across the technology review website, and they mentioned that they have created a 3-D heat resistant ceramic parts printer. Researchers have now made it easy to print ceramics for components of rockets, airplane parts, and the military industry. The ceramic parts can be made in complex shapes while still remaining durable. It is located at HRL labs, and they have made it easy to use the machine with materials such as resin liquid polymer to also build complex 3-D structures such as lattice. I would love to use this type of technology, especially after seeing the success of Frank Stella's "Retrospective" show. The artist uses hard materials such as resin and metal to turn them into sculptural paintings.
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