Check These Gorgeous 3D-Printed Sculptures Out

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David S
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How much do we depend on technology? How much influence does technology have over our lives and what is the relationship between art and technology? These are some of the questions sculptor Sebastian ErraZuriz asks the viewer through his latest exhibition called “The Beginning of the End”.

The 42-year-old Chilean artist presented eight 3D-modeled and 3D-printed sculptures of different significant figures that shaped the technology world as we know it today.

You will have the chance to see Edward Snowden, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and others in a 3D-printed version as mythological gods or emperors with the aesthetic of Roman statues.

This exhibition is the product of five years devoted to exploring the impact that technology has both in our intimate worlds and in the bigger picture as well while focusing on biotechnology, nanorobotics, and social economics.

The 3D-printed models were previously available only in digital form and could be seen with the help of augmented reality, but the visitors at the Elizabeth Collective in New York will have a chance to see them in real life until the 24th of May. If you are nearby, this is an excellent exhibition that deserves your attention. 

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“THE CORPORATE NATION STATE” The richest man in the world: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon is depicted as Louis XIV Known as the “Sun King” a monarch, drunk with power, famous for stating: L'Etat, c'est moi (I am the state) . Amazon at 49% of US online sales today is a monopoly. Nevertheless antitrust laws do not apply as they are set to protect the consumer, whom for now receives the best deals possible. But what will happen when Amazon in its mission to fulfill revenue for its shareholders continues to replace workers for robots, cashiers for sensors? What happens when their cashier less stores perfect their software and hardware combos and lease those services out to the other few remaining retail stores? What happens when the most valuable company in the world makes its influence in the senate? How do you hold international companies that need no physical presence accountable to the laws of each country they operate in? How do you get their CEO’s to answer to congressional investigations if they are not legally compelled to do so? How do you stop a winner takes all system where East gets Alibaba and the West gets Amazon to divide the world? What happens when today’s biggest corporations have larger reserves of cash than most medium size countries? What stops them from “printing” their own currency? What stops them from declaring sovereignty? Hiring their own armed forces? And let’s say you are the citizen of a small country, imprisoned as a tourist in a foreign conflict zone like Syria… who would you rather intervened in your behalf? The president of your small particular country? Or the CEO of your company: Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Paige And Brin from Google or Zuckerberg of Facebook? Who has more power? Who would you rather “belong” to? Are countries loosing their influence and purpose in a highly efficient globalized capitalist pyramid system? I’m all ears… Throw your bets in, present your arguments, we need to start seeing the big pictures. #tech #art #sculpture #contemporaryart #3dprinting #frieze #artist

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“THE POLICE STATE” Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping. USA, Russia and China. Will compete for supremacy over General Artificial Intelligence. Who ever achieves it first, becomes the next superpower. In a world with record high levels of unemployment part of the population will turn to strong populist governments. They will give away their freedoms for the promise of security. And these new authoritarian governments armed with technology and powers of control never known before will govern and quash any attempt of subordination. Today opens: “The Beginning Of The End. @theelizabeth.nyc #contemporaryart #frieze #3dprinting #friezeweek #art #artist #tech #sculpture #sculptor #zbrush

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“THE PROPHET” Sculpture 1 Steve Jobs is the prophet. Every religion has a prophet who brings with him a gospel that results in a cultural change. These “tablets” that Jobs brought allowed us to be interconnected, to never feel lost, to be able to ask any question and to come together to bring down tyrants. The tablets too brought dependence and an almighty entity recoding every move, action or message. The necessary data to finally start training algorithms and machine learning that would ultimately result in the arrival of General Artificial Intelligence. “The Beginning of The End” Exhibit opens on Tuesday at 6 at @theelizabeth.nyc Many thanks to @roxanaqgirand and @salomoncontemporary . #contemporaryart #friezeweek #frieze #3dprinting #stevejobs #tech #art #artist

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