{"id":457,"date":"2010-03-16T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/growth-modeling-device\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T01:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T09:56:26","slug":"growth-modeling-device","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/growth-modeling-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth Modeling Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"growth modeling device\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20966301?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interview with the artist David Bowen about <em>Growth Modeling Device<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style2\">&#8220;This system uses lasers to scan an onion plant from one of three angles. As the plant is scanned a fuse deposition modeler in real-time creates a plastic model based on the information collected. The device repeats this process every twenty-four hours scanning from a different angle. After a new model is produced the system advances a conveyor approximately 17 inches so the cycle can re<\/span><span class=\"style2\">peat. The result is a series of plastic models illustrating the growth of the plant from three different angles.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u94\/gmd%28detail%29%5B1%5D.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"254\" \/>\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u94\/gmd%28full%29%5B1%5D.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similar to this artwork is one of Bowen&#8217;s other works, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwbowen.com\/growth-rendering-device\"><em>Growth Rendering Device<\/em><\/a> (2007, below) which involves 2-D printing of a plant&#8217;s growth progression on paper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-asset.jpeg\" width=\"857\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both Sommerer and Mignonneau&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/vocabulary_3\/360\/\">Interactive Plant Growing<\/a> <\/em>(1993) and Ken Goldberg et als&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/?post_type=artwork&amp;p=1709\">Telegarden<\/a> <\/em>(1996) are related to Bowen&#8217;s work as they are involved in plant life and the growth and development of plants.<em> Interactive Plant Growing<\/em> virtually simulates plants that are actually present at the installation. They also progress but instead of prototyping the plants their real time evolution is simulated in virtual space. In <em>Telegarden<\/em> growth of the plant is not duplicated or simulated but influenced. Participants on the internet are able to get involved in nurturing a real plant garden. In short, the three artworks combined duplicate, simulate and interact with plant life.<\/p>\n<p>A great example from a different perspective of art and from a different era is <a href=\"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/dawn-burn-2\/\"><em>Dawn Burn<\/em><\/a> (1973) by Mary Lucier. Here progression is also staged and captured, not by prototyping but by burning in the progression of the sun at dawn in seven television tubes.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rees expresses his love for Rapid Prototyping in <em>Rapid Prototyping and Art<\/em> (1998). Michael Rees stresses the possibilities and instant similarity of the Rapid Prototyping technology, &#8220;[t]he most unbelievable claim I made to my art dealer is what is most true about this technology: WYSIWYG &#8211; What You See Is What You Get. If you can imagine the form and describe it in a CAD program, it can be build, done.&#8221; In the case of <em>Growth Modeling Device<\/em>, the technology is not used for rapid prototyping but more as rapid reproduction or rapid surrogate creation.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Artist website: http:\/\/www.dwbowen.com\/gmd.html<\/p>\n<p>[2] Edward Shanken, red. <em>Art and Electronic Media<\/em>. 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