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Claudia Hart


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Mortification 01, 2007, 7.5” in h x 2.75” w x 2.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Mortification 01, 2007, 7.5” in h x 2.75” w x 2.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Mortification 01, 2007, 7.5” in h x 2.75” w x 2.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Mortification 01 Invert, 2007, each 7.5” in h x 2.75” w x 2.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Mortification 01 Invert, 2007, each 7.5” in h x 2.75” w x 2.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Mortification 01 Invert, 2007, each 7.5” in h x 2.75” w x 2.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Mortification 04, 2009, 6” h x 8” w x 3.75” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic The Brides, 2010, 2” h x 12” w x 3.25” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Teddy, 2010, 7” h x 8” w x 5” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Teddy, 2010, 7” h x 8” w x 5” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic Teddy, 2010, 7” h x 8” w x 5” d, rapid-prototype printed acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene plastic


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Resolution, Reification and Resistance: A Conversation with Claudia Hart, a chapter in “3D Additivism Cookbook,” edited by Morehshin Allahyari + Daniel Rourke, published by The Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam) as a 3D PDF and print-on-demand publication, 2017, pp. 67-71.




Mortifications, 2007-2011 
Rapid Prototype printed sculptures

Mortifications are a series of heavy plastic figurines output from a Rapid Prototype machine. Individual 3D computer models are produced via a process normal to industrial manufacturing. In the Mortifications, a realistic model of a nude is digitally "mutilated" and subjected to irregular and apparently organic deformations. By creating forms that evoke decay out of non-biodegradable ABS plastic, using a process intended to produce prototypes for mass production, the Mortifications propose a digital Baroque. Related to the intentions of the historical Baroque, the emotionally expressive, personal style of this imagery is intended to breathe irregularity and life into a conformist techno/consumer culture.