Panel Statement

Panel: Computers and Sculpture

The Computers and Sculpture Forum in the U.S.A. and Ars Mathematica in France are associations of sculptors who use the computer. This presentation will be a survey of the use of computers in the visualization, presentation, fabrication and control of sculpture and three-dimensional scientific and mathematical visualization. In October 1995, we will be holding a joint and simultaneous exhibition of sculpture in Philadelphia and Paris. The presentation will reflect the work that we will be gathering together for the exhibition. The sites will be linked via the Internet for events, demonstrations, and the trans-oceanic control of sculpture-making tools to complement the exhibition.

• Timothy Duffield (UK) has created many public sculptures throughout the USA . He uses the computer to design sculpture and to visualize how it will fit in an existing site. This has led to a fascination with three-dimensional animation as an end in itself. He is also a landscape architect and, as Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, is exploring the use of the computer in terrain modeling.
• Rob Fisher [1939-2006] (USA) was an internationally recognized sculptor, author and lecturer and a pioneer in the application of the computer to large-scale sculpture. He has received many commissions throughout the U.S.A., Japan and Saudi Arabia. He was a research fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was Artistic Director of the “Living Cell” project, a group-immersive, interactive visualization event for planetariums. groundsforsculpture.org/artists/rob-fisher