MakerBot Industries

Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales relies on his MakerBot Cupcake extensively for his new installation, De Redes and Cadenas, using it to transform brief poems by Rafael Cadenas into sculptures made up of machine-readable cyphers such as QR codes and Microsoft Tag.

The above video demonstrates how a viewer might experience the installation, using a cellphone to read the sculptures made up of transformed poems.

This is a very neat MakerBot-enabled work, and it also provides an interesting view of Cadenas’ work, which appears to be under-translated into English.

Are you using a MakerBot as an artistic tool?  If so please share your stories with us — most of us here at the BotCave are more engineer than poet, and we need to know where free-associating artists want to push the boundaries of 3d printing.