MeshBombing
2014
Chromira print mounted to Dibond
H 20” x L 30” x D 1”
MeshBombs are 3D printed interventions in which an object is “borrowed” from a public location, 3D scanned, the CAD files are altered, 3D printed and quickly returned to their original site within a new sculptural composition. The process is similar to a graffiti throw-up, where speed and anonymity are key. The spontaneous compositions are left as offerings to the site and often grow and evolve as visitors add to, rearrange, and sometimes claim the installations as their own.
“That factor which consists in a recurrence of the same situations, things and events, will perhaps not appeal to everyone as a source of uncanny feeling. From what I have observed, this phenomenon does undoubtedly, subject to certain conditions and combined with certain circumstances awaken an uncanny feeling, which recalls that sense of helplessness sometimes experienced in dreams.”
-Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny 1919
Meshbomb: Yoda, PLA, dimensions variable
Meshbomb: Scaffold, PLA, dimensions variable
Meshbomb: Ganesh, PLA, dimensions variable
Meshbomb: Zombie, PLA, dimensions variable
Meshbomb: Bust, PLA, dimensions variable
Meshbomb: Yoda (detail), PLA, dimensions variable
Meshbomb: Yoda (process pic)
Meshbomb: Yoda (process pic)
How-to MeshBomb Infographic
Download your free copy here The 3D Additivist Cookbook
Ferguson’s Meshbombing project was published in the 2015 3D Additivist Cookbook , devised and edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. The Meshbombing project can be found on pages 281-281 of the 360 page compilation. According to the #additivism website:
“The 3D Additivist Cookbook is a free compendium of imaginative, provocative works from over 100 world-leading artists, activists and theorists. The 3D Additivist Cookbook contains .obj and .stl files for the 3D printer, as well as critical and fictional texts, templates, recipes, (im)practical designs and methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times.
In March 2015 Allahyari & Rourke released The 3D Additivist Manifesto, a call to push the 3D printer and other creative technologies, to their absolute limits and beyond into the realm of the speculative, the provocative and the weird. The 3D Additivist Cookbook is composed of responses to that call, an extensive catalog of digital forms, material actions, and post-humanist methodologies and impressions.
#Additivism is a portmanteau of additive and activism: a movement concerned with critiquing ‘radical’ new technologies in fablabs, workshops, and classrooms; at social, ecological, and global scales. The 3D Additivist Cookbook questions whether it’s possible to change the world without also changing ourselves, and what the implications are of taking a position.”