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Joseph Depre, Kyle Troyer, & Benjamin Hergert

The object is an investigation into recreating to the expressive gestural forms techniques of rococo plastering through a digital model making. Modeling in virtual reality allowed us to maintain the gesture of creation through the human body. Bridging the gap from digital mechanical production to digital human production, in a sense creating a more emersed digital craftsman. This relationship between craftsmanship and mechanical or industrial production as several historical echoes.

The images we created is hybridization referencing the specific historical echo the arts and crafts movement and the prints William Morris in combination with the mundane fantasies of contemporary middle class sensuality. Our geometries are derived from the pop cultural phenomenon of Star Wars, The Lord of the Ring, and Mickey Mouse’s Magic Kingdom.