Reminder --- MAKER FAIRE Sept 20 -21

a bunch of my friends will be showing here - great to get ideas

Dear friends and colleagues, i’m typing this email to you sitting in the terminal at O’Hare waiting for our flight to LGA. We’re heading to New York just as the art world descends on Chicago. It may seem counterintuitive to do this and to be sure we’re going to miss seeing Expo this year and all the wonderful projects our friends and colleagues are putting on. But this year Holly and I are exhibiting at World Maker Faire in New York at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. We’re heading out to the Big Apple to give people a sneak preview of “Press Play: Make Your Own Museum” our new business project that we’re planning to launch in early 2015. With “Press Play” we are encouraging you to touch the art! We have 3D scanned art works from the AIC collection will produce plastic press molds that you can use with modeling clay and other soft materials to recreate these important cultural treasures. We hope that you will sign up for the “Press Play” mailing list here to receive design updates as we move closer to the launch date and pre-order press molds as the become available.

In addition to presenting “Press Play” at Maker Faire I am exhibiting my newly published 3D printed book “Folium.” Produced during my residency at The Art Institute of Chicago this summer. “Folium” is a 3D printed book of bas relief from the AIC collection spanning over two thousand years of human history. The title Folium is derived from the Latin for leaf and refers to the flexible decorative leaves that allow each page to bend like a “real” book. Folium is released under the following Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/and all the files can be downloaded from Thingiverse. If you are in NY this weekend and plan to come to Maker Faire please come find us (somewhere in the 3D Printer Village) and check out “Folium” and my first 3D printed book “Orihon” in person.

“Folium” has only been out in the public domain for less than a week and it’s already getting quite a bit of buzz online. Boing Boing - my all time favorite blog - picked it upon Tuesday with a piece posted by Cory Doctorow. Yesterday Gizmodo also featured it - and their lede - “……. Grubby Meathooks” was an instant quote of the day!

Finally i picked up a copy of New City enroute to O’Hare and was pleasantly surprised to see that I have been included in the New City Art 50 Artist’s Artists 2014. I’m honored to have been selected for this list and feel grateful to be seen in such good company. Congrats to all my colleagues who made the pick.