What Things May Come! 3D Printing in the Fine Arts and Sciences. BROWN SYMPOSIUM XXXVII FEB. 26-27, 2015 Harvard Business Review states that 3D Print technology will change the world. No longer science fiction, 3 D Printing is a reality that it is appearing everywhere from home to office. Not bound by dimension or material, we have begun to see inventive and dynamic new methods of creating things both strange and familiar. It is the engineers and artists who first recognized the possibilities that 3D Printing would enable. The social impact of 3D Printing alone has had a remarkable impact upon those whose missing limbs impede their lives. There is not an arena that has been left untouched by the impact of 3D printing. Unfortunately, most news surrounding 3D printing has been focused on rather mundane objects like a working gun or missing parts, but what has not been discussed is the printing of things not thought possible before, such as functioning human organs from your own cells or how this technology changes the way in which human beings think creatively and thus its impact on various fields of study. 3D printing is different from other forms of knowledge in that it allows not only for discovery of things long past as in its use in archaeology, but it has the potential to solve major issues in our lives, such as building no waste environmentally friendly homes, replacing damaged coral reefs, mass producing customized products, exploring other planets, replacing living body parts, or creating unique sculptural forms or musical instruments that one could only imagine prior to the invention and expansion of the 3D printer. What we will be discussing is the impact of 3D print technology on the human mind as it endeavors to meet future challenges in the arts and sciences. Come and discuss the future with these speakers for this 37 Brown Symposium.

Dr. Anthony Atala M.D. (Feb 26th only) the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University: Regenerative Medicine: Current Concepts and Changing Trends

Prof. Olaf Diegel of Lund University Sweden: “3D Printing: a Bridge to Unlimited Creativity”,

Bruce Beasley world-renowned sculptor; 3D Printing Sculpture: Where am I going and What am I doing.

Prof. Robert Michael Smith of NYIT: "Robert Michael Smith: In Search of the Lost Coord"

Panel Discussion with creative thinkers from around the world on Friday Feb 27, 2015.

Prof. Mary Visser holder of the Herman Brown Chair, Southwestern University - We are in this moment on a very long slope of change in how we humans do things in this world. Although the focus is at the moment on making things we will see a remarkable shift in how our brains respond to solving problems. I have already observed this shift in my classrooms where students new to art who have never drawn before are able to construct forms directly in virtual reality and translate their ideas into real world forms. This shift in creativity and how the mind forms its responses is responsible for developing solutions from regenerating our bodies to conserving our resources in viable effective ways. This technology holds answers we have not yet begun to explore. What is not being discussed in the public realm and what we will focus on in this symposium is how this technology changes the very way we think and approach creative solutions.

Its important to point out that the ideas that 3D technology now facilitates have been with us since we began drawing images on the walls of caves. Human beings have been representing our three- dimensional world on flat surfaces for thousands of years. But we live in a three D world and most of its problems are 3D in nature. I have chosen these three fields to examine in this 37th Brown symposium as each one has been actively involved from the beginning and the changes are dramatic. First sculpture because it has the longest and most interactive history with 3D Print technology. In Sculpture we will have an international exhibition of sculptural works printed by artists who are pioneers in this field. Our first speaker is world-renowned sculptor Bruce Beasley who will be speaking about his work and how 3D printing changed his way of working and thinking. The title of his talk is 3D Printing Sculpture: Where am I going and What am I doing. We will also have the artist Prof. Robert Michael Smith from NYIT giving a presentation on his research entitled "Robert Michael Smith: In Search of the Lost Coord". He will discuss his groundbreaking process of creating living sculptures from his own body cells. And in Music Prof. Olaf Diegel from Lund University in Sweden will be speaking on “3D Printing: a Bridge to Unlimited Creativity”.

According to Professor Diegel customization will be the key because rethinking the form will be as simple as changing the code. Thus, creativity in meeting individuals’ needs will change the social impact of this technology on all human beings from creating prosthetics to facial restructuring. Meeting individual desires and needs, instead of sameness will change the way we think culturally, socially and economically. This is a major shift in how we do things around the world from inventing, creating, moving and making this shift will change what we do and how we will build our lives in the future as it already has for some now. Our speaker who will address 3D Printing in the Sciences is Professor Anthony Atala, M.D., the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University. Dr. Atala is a practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine. His current work focuses on growing new human cells, tissues and organs. Dr Atala will speak about building organs with a 3D Ink-Jet Printer. This is actually being done in the lab of Anthony Atala today. One of the projects they are working on is building functional, beating heart valves, which they exercise in a bioreactor to help precondition them for implantation. What changes will opening this Pandora’s box create for the human species?

The following day the panelists will discuss what are the changes in creative thinking that 3D printing holds for sculptors, scientists, and musicians. How will these changes in creative thinking influence the use and development of 3D printing for the 21st century? To anyone who hasn’t seen a 3 D Printer demonstrated, it sounds futuristic—like the Jetsons dinner arriving at the touch of a keypad. Although the 3D printing technology is simple in concept it is evolutionary in what it offers. By enabling a machine to produce objects of any shape, on the spot and as needed, 3-D printing really is ushering in a new era. So come and participate in the 2015 Brown Symposium on What Things May Come and you will be amazed at the changes and the implications for our future in all areas.

This symposium includes an International Digital Sculpture Art Exhibition with more than 40 works from around the world by well known sculptors in the field. January 4th –March 5th.

Opening reception to be held during the symposium Jan 26th with panel discussions by artists on Friday.

We will have demonstrations of how this process works and other creations in the 3 D world.

The Empty Bowls project will also return to be held on Thursday at lunchtime.

------The following information pertains to the speakers and moderator. This includes bios to share with your students plus pictures of their most recent work. I will be sending out utube links to their works. There are 30 artists in the international art exhibition and they are the pioneers in this field. There will be a link on the Brown Web site to each artist along with examples of their work.

BRUCE BEASLEY

Bruce Beasley biography: Bruce Beasley (born 1939, , ) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Los Angeles and currently living and working in Oakland, California. He attended from 1957–59, and the University of California, Berkeley from 1959-62 where he earned his BA. Beasley ranks among the most productive sculptors of the post- Henry Moore/ generation of abstract sculptors. His work can be found in the permanent collection of 30 art museums around the world, including: in ; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; the Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC; the Kunsthalle Mannheim in ; and the Islamic Museum in Cairo. Fascinated by the esthetics of transparency, Beasley worked in cast acrylic for the next ten years. In 1974, members of the undersea research community approached Beasley to see if he could adapt his technique to cast transparent bathyspheres for undersea exploration. He succeeded in creating the bathyspheres for Johnson Sea Link submersibles for Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. [6] It was these submersibles that were deployed to locate the crew compartment on the bottom of the ocean after the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated upon liftoff in 1986. Beasley continued to make transparent sculpture for the next ten years. His transparent sculptures were exhibited widely both in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions in 1972 at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and group shows including the Salon de Mai in Paris and at Expo 70 in , . Many experts in the art world have praised Beasley's contributions to the art of sculpture. Among them: Beasley continues in the tradition of modernist abstract sculptors such as David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Eduardo Chillida, pursuing pure form and shape as an expressive and communicative human language. Beasley's sculpture is profoundly and proudly visual. Rather than resembling any one thing, his works evoke many things. His sculptures immerse the viewer in an experience of form that triggers feelings and sensations. -- Philip Linhares, chief curator of art, Oakland Museum of California (Beasley) has been among the most innovate artists on the West Coast…(His) intelligence is balanced by a deep respect for the unpremeditated creative process as a fertile source of invention. -- Susan Landauer, chief curator of the San Jose Museum of Art and author of The San Francisco School of Beasley will be on the scene long after many of the current faddists are forgotten. -- Henry J. Seldis, art critic, The Los Angeles Times In the modernist tradition, Beasley does not see sculpture's purpose as providing the viewer with things the mind already knows. The sculptor's vision is to see what could be. His sculpture adds to, rather than confirms, our knowledge of what structures can look like that perform no practical function. -- Albert Elsen, Walter A. Hass professor of Art History, Beasley's technical innovations, his evolving formal vocabularies, the continuity of his sensibility, and his overt dedication to form as content all mark him as an unregenerate, and unapologetic, modernist... -- Peter Frank, art critic Bruce's development has conformed to my greatest expectations. He is forever in the avant-garde, doggedly creating sculpture that evolves and delights. This is the mission of the consummate artist such as Beasley -- one who embraces the fundamental truth of 'risk and reward' in the very act of creating artworks. -- Everett Ellin, owner Everett Ellin Gallery, 1960–64, assistant director, Guggenheim Museum, 1965–67 Beasley uses the metaphor of syntax and grammar for what he nevertheless sees as a visual, not written, medium: The language of sculpture is mute and silent. The vocabulary of sculpture is shape and emptiness. It is a visual language with a unique syntax and grammar that explores the limits of the physical world and the limits of our imagination. This visual language has been deep within us from the beginning of our species. It is a language that anyone who wants to can understand, but it cannot be rendered into the language of the written or spoken word.

Beasley 3D Printed Sculptures:

Robert Michael Smith

Sculpture, 3-D Digital Art, Web Design and Broadcast

Robert Michael Smith is a sculptor, 3D digital artist, and professor of sculpture, 3D computer visualization/animation, desktop publishing, Web design, and philosophy of aesthetics at New York Institute of Technology Fine Arts Department at Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses.

Smith is also Web Director of www.sculpture.org for The International Sculpture Center, the premier Website for all information regarding sculpture.

Smith is a member of the Board of Directors for the SIGGRAPH/NYC chapter and President of The Sculptors Guild. He is also a member of the Washington Sculptors Group and Philadelphia Sculptors.

Smith previously taught at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, The New School for Social Research, Parsons School of Art & Design, University of the Arts, The Sculpture Center, University of North Dakota, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and San Jose State University.

Smith has lectured on his sculpture and digital work at several major international conferences including ISEA95 Montreal (International Society of Electronic Arts); International Sculpture Conferences - 1992 Philadelphia, 1994 San Francisco, 1996 Providence, 1998 Chicago, 2000 Houston, 2001 Pittsburgh; SCAN conferences - Philadelphia 1992, 1995,1996,1997, 2000; InterSculpt99, French Senate, Paris, France; 1991 Central Time Zone Sculpture Conference, FermiLab, Batavia, Illinois; and three lectures during 1999-2000 for SIGGRAPH/NYC. He was also a Committee Coordinator for the Rapid Prototyping section at The Studio, SIGGRAPH2000, New Orleans, LA.

Smith has also lectured as a guest artist at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; University of Minnesota at Minneapolis/St. Paul; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska; University of Washington at Seattle; Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois; Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas; La Costa School for the Arts, La Costa, France; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii; and University of Texas at San Antonio.

Smith wrote an article about 3D computer visualization for sculptors in Maquette magazine, September 1993, an article about VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) for Sculpture magazine, May/June, 1996, and an interview with sculptors who use computers, Sculpture magazine, July/August, 1996.

Smith's work has been included in several international articles regarding digital sculpture and art .

Professor Olaf Diegel Phd. Lund University, Sweden

Professor Olaf Diegel was born in New Zealand, but has spent much of his life in countries such as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and Japan. Professor Diegel is both an educator and a practitioner of green object design with an excellent research record of developing innovative solutions to engineering problems. In his role as professor in the department of design sciences and engineering at Lund University, in Sweden, he is heavily involved in all aspects of product development and is widely published in the areas of additive manufacturing and rapid product development. In his consulting practice he has developed a wide range of products that are meant to replace products that are not green or are wasteful for companies around the world. Over the past 10 years he has developed over 60 viable new products including innovative new theatre lighting products, security and marine products and several home health monitoring products and, for this work, has received numerous awards. Over the last 20 years, Professor Diegel has become a passionate follower of 3D printing (additive manufacturing). He believes it is one of the new technologies that has been a real godsend to innovation as it allows designers and inventors to instantly test out ideas to see if they work. It also removes the traditional manufacturing constraints that have become a barrier to creativity, and innovation. In 2012, Diegel started making a range of 3D printed guitars and instruments allowing him to make things that are a blend of high-technology and traditional hand-crafting. He has received numerous awards including two gold medals at the 2010 Concours Lépine in Paris, the 2009 NZ nomination in the E-Health & Environment category at the World Summit Awards, the 2008 Bayer Innovation Awards in the Health and Science category for his innovative work in the area of predictive health monitoring products, and the 2006 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards Engineering Innovator of the Year prize.

Links: http://www.odd.org.nz/index.html http://youtu.be/aAbXZR6XQtY

Steam punk 3D printed guitar by Olaf Diegel

The Americana 3D printed guitar: A guitar inspired by a recent trip to New York, an amazing city that is full of life, both night and day, and that triggered a fascination with American symbolism and patriotism. The guitar features a stunning paint job and airbrushed eagle head by New Zealand airbrush artist Ron van Dam.

The guitar features a sky scape of New York City inside the guitar, with some of its most famous landmarks including, the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Freedom Tower, Statue of Liberty, Staten Island Ferry, Brooklyn Bridge, Yankee Stadium, St Patricks Cathedral, and the Love sculpture by artist Robert Indiana.

The bodies are printed, using Selective Laser Sintering, by 3D Systems in the USA, on an sPro 230 SLS system. The material being used for these guitars is Duraform PA which is a very strong form of Nylon. The resolution for the prints was 0.1mm (which means that each layer that makes up the guitar body is 0.1mm thick). The guitars feature a wooden inner core (choices of Mahogany or Maple, etc.) that links the neck to the bridge, which allows us to customize the sustain and tone of the instrument to suit the musician, and a number of options for hardware, etc.

Dr. Anthony Atala, M.D.

Biographical Summary Prepared by the Office of External Affairs

Anthony Atala, MD, is the Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University. Dr. Atala is a practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine. His current work focuses on growing new human cells, tissues and organs.

Dr. Atala works with several journals and serves in various roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Stem Cells- Translational Medicine, Current Stem Cell Research and Therapy, and Therapeutic Advances in Urology; as Associate Editor of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, The Journal of Rejuvenation Research, and Gene Therapy and Regulation; as Executive Board Member or Section Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Organs, Organogenesis, and Current Urology Reports; and as Editorial Board member of Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, Biomedical Materials, Journal of Tissue Science and Engineering, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Technology, the Journal of Urology, Recent Patents on Regenerative Medicine, BioMed Central-Urology, Urology, and Current Transplantation Reports.

Dr. Atala is a recipient of many awards, including the US Congress funded Christopher Columbus Foundation Award, bestowed on a living American who is currently working on a discovery that will significantly affect society, the World Technology Award in Health and Medicine, presented to individuals achieving significant and lasting progress, the Samuel D. Gross Prize, awarded every 5 years to a national leading surgical researcher by the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, the Barringer Medal from the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons for distinguished accomplishments, the Gold Cystoscope award from the American Urological Association for advances in the field, the Ramon Guiteras Award for pioneering research in regenerative medicine and outstanding contributions as a scholar and teacher, the Innovation Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for the creation of synthetic organs, and the Rocovich Gold Medal, awarded to a distinguished scientist who has made a major impact on science toward the understanding of human disease. In 2011 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Atala was elected to the Royal Academy for the Encouragement of the Arts in 2012, and to the National Academy of Inventors as a Charter Fellow in 2013. Dr. Atala's team received the Edison Science/Medical Award in 2013. ------Dr. Atala’s work has been described in the lay press. In 2003 he was named by Scientific American as a Medical Treatments Leader of the Year for his contributions to the fields of cell, tissue and organ regeneration. Dr. Atala’s work was listed as Time Magazine’s top 10 medical breakthroughs of the year, and as Discover Magazine`s Number 1 Top Science Story of the Year in the field of medicine in 2007. In 2009 Dr. Atala was featured in U.S. News & World Report as one of 14 Pioneers of Medical Progress in the 21st Century, and his work in 2010 was listed by Smithsonian Magazine as one of 40 things to know about the next 40 years. Dr. Atala’ work was listed in the Huffington post as one of 18 great ideas of 2011, in Time Magazine as one of the top 5 medical breakthroughs of the year in 2011, by the American Association of Retired Persons as one of the 50 influential people who will make life better in 2012, and by Time Magazine as one of 5 discoveries that will change the future of organ transplants in 2013.

Dr. Atala has led or served several national professional and government committees, including the National Institutes of Health working group on Cells and Developmental Biology, the National Institutes of Health Bioengineering Consortium, and the National Cancer Institute’s Advisory Board. Dr. Atala heads a team of over 300 physicians and researchers. Over ten applications of technologies developed in Dr. Atala's laboratory have been used clinically.

He is the editor of thirteen books, including Principles of Regenerative Medicine, Foundations of Regenerative Medicine, Methods of Tissue Engineering, and Minimally Invasive Urology. He has published more than 400 journal articles and has applied for or received over 200 national and international patents.

Dr. Atala holding a 3D Printed Kidney, 9 Bladders were implanted in children 11 years ago. They are still working.

Dr. Anthony Atala on Ted Talks video

Co-Curators for the International Sculpture Exhibition

Mary Hale Visser TEXAS, USA

Biography: http://www.mavissersculpture.com/ Mary Hale Visser Professor of Art and Brown Chair holder teaches sculpture and computer modeling at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Visser's artwork has appeared in more than 125-juried exhibitions and has received awards such as the “Design Excellence Award" from the City of Austin Design Commission, a Mellon Technology Fellowship, and a Mundy Fellowship for her research in rapid prototyping sculptural forms. Visser holds a B.A.E. and M.F.A. in sculpture from The Ohio State University. Visser has completed several large-scale public and private commissions installed in the cities of Washington, D.C.; Sacramento, California; Austin, Texas; Lenexus, Kansas and Columbus, Ohio. Her artwork was selected for the e-Form exhibition of rapid prototyped sculptures to tour China during the 2008 Olympic games. Her work has been included in several multimedia and video presentations in the United States and Europe. Visser’s artwork has been featured in Texas Monthly, Artspace, Ceramics Monthly, Sculpture International and in the book, A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas. Visser is one of the first group of international artists who pioneered the use of rapid prototyping and digital technologies in sculpture. She is vice president of Ars Mathematica of Paris, France an international non-profit organization devoted to promoting digital sculpture. The Director of Ars Mathematica Christian Lavigne and Professor Visser are writing a book on the history and pioneers of digital sculpture soon to be published. Visser’s research focuses on the use of digital 3D modeling and rapid prototyping to create complex abstract figurative sculptures. She has given numerous workshops on using technology in creating sculptural forms.

Artist Statement: How extraordinary it is to be human, struggling to communicate, to live a meaningful life, albeit so briefly. I search for the soul from whence all life comes. Myths, legends, stories and poems of individual human endeavors draw me in to search for that elusive spirit, the intangible made real. What is it that we see in an individual human action that changes the soul, thus, changes all people through the actions of this one being? What compelled that action that puts the individual at risk to change the whole community for the better. As one can see body language is essential to my work and solid modeling allows me to incorporate the delicate gestures, subtle contours and complex structure of the body into a detailed rhythm of forms and gestures. I am drawn to record these events, these examples of this human spirit. It is this elusive spirit that drives all human beings to create. It is this life force that I pursue in using the human body to recreate the individual effort.

Christian Lavigne Paris, France Biography: Christian LAVIGNE, developed a personal poetical aesthetic universe, based on mythologies and symbols. For more than 30 years, the artist uses computers, NC devices or (since 1993) RP machines, and is now well known as a pioneer in digital sculpture. He coined the words Robosculpture (1988) and Cybersculpture (1995). Christian LAVIGNE has exhibited his works in several countries, in Europe, North America, China, Australia, New Zealand, and West Africa. With Alexandre VITKINE he created ARS MATHEMATICA, which organizes the worldwide computer sculpture biennial INTERSCULPT since 1995 (very first exhibition in 1993, not with this name), and numerous events related to art and science, among them the WEB CAST – Café des Arts des Sciences et des Techniques – that was co-leaded by Simon DINER and Christian LAVIGNE. The artist also created the TOILE METISSE association, for the meeting of North and South cultures. Currently, with the Pr. Mary VISSER (Southwestern University, Texas, USA Christian LAVIGNE (Paris, France. President of ARS MATHEMATICA), is writing the first book on the digital sculpture history (the working title is: "The Cybersculpture"). This book will be officially presented during the Brown Symposium 2015: "3D Printing and the Arts: What Things May Come", to be held at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Artist Statement:

My main purpose is to promote a New Renaissance in the reunion of Art, Poetry, Science and Technology. I first approached the arts as a poet who enjoyed exploring "distant cultures". I became a painter and a sculptor because I needed to write poetry in 2D and 3D. My scientific background and lack of formal training in the arts allowed me to use computers to design and create. I see no difference between virtual worlds and physcial worlds as one is matter and the other is light and both enter the mind. The digital arts are rooted in the material, and cybersculpture doesn't forget the body! However just using this technology does not make one an artist. An artist must give the work meaning. Too many people are following the latest technologies that excite the public without giving true meaning to their work. The dignity of the artist is to be honest and authentic while trying to transcend the reality. Our true strength is to succeed in surpassing the present and our personal situation to reach the foundations of the human condition. We must be vigilant about freedom of expression and Human Rights. We have in our hands the most powerful scepter against the obscurantism: the culture. It would be a crime to use it with negligence and superficiality. Beyond the geographical or the temporal frontiers, the poet, the artist, is one Human speaking to another Human about life and joy, death and sadness. I'm in favor of a transcendental, sacred and agnostic art. We do not need anyone’s permission, as all tools are good to move, to arouse and to free the human mind, in a fraternal perspective.