Three.js – JavaScript 3D Library
Description: Crystallized Skins is an online collection of 3D objects by 13 international video artists, available for download.
design (77873) video (57338) art (56616) 3d (9548) sculpture (6998) model (4025) exhibition (2634) plaster (373) webgl (357) pavillion (50)
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The pavilion Crystallized Skins is conceived in the tradition of plaster cast collections of the 18th and 19th century. European museums in that period, for example The South Kensington Museum , today known as Victoria and Albert Museum , started to collect a wide array of reproductions of Classical, Baroque and Renaissance masterpieces for artists, students and historians to experience an actual physical object and understand the aesthetic knowledge of the specific epoch.
Many of these collections were broken up or disappeared in storage during the first half of the 20th century, when the value of the casts was questioned. But now, in our digital age, a generation exists that is surrounded by copies, appropriations and remixes without questioning the origin of an idea. So this collection of virtual objects is extending upon the historic trajectory of the physical libraries, spanning an artistic heritage of centuries.
Three.js – JavaScript 3D Library