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Following his "#1 most-funded sculpture project in Kickstarter history," Chicago-based multicreative Joshua Harker's on the crowdfunding site once again. Expressing his signature blend of art and design, Harker's not hawking a functional object per se; his beautiful, 3D-printed sculpture, which combines the skull that was so successful the first time around with a new set of articulating wings, was created "In honor of the developing 3rd Industrial Revolution."
Representing the project is a 3-piece sculpture entitled "Anatomica di Revolutis" (loosely intended to mean "Anatomy of the Revolution"). Each component is designed to assemble together to present a larger narrative about the developing 3rd Industrial Revolution. The fully assembled sculpture... symbolizes liberty & prosperity through an empowered participatory populace. It is designed to hang on a wall or other vertical surface....The wings are comprised of 75 separate mechanical moving pieces that are printed in their entirety as a single working assembly. They are symbolic of the mythical Phoenix rebirth & spring from the fire theme interpreted by my "tangle" aesthetic.
What's interesting is that Harker doesn't appear to be using Kickstarter to purchase a particular machine, and waiting until the money comes in to set up shop; the already-up-and-running Harker has already exceeded his ultra-low $500 target, and is apparently just interested in using Kickstarter as a platform. Like Harker's work, the approach is both unconventional and successful.
Comments
As wonderful as this may be, "the third industrial revolution" immediately makes me think of the great exhibition and the arts and crafts movement which followed, not in a small part as a reaction to the products exhibited there: mass produced -- massively decorated -- products, made possible by the industrial revolution. Are we watching history repeat itself now that we have access to these new manufacturing techniques?
Very Mexican clavera, amigo!