Looking-Outwards-02

https://www.quayola.com/sculpture-factory/

The Scultpure Factory; Quayola; 2016

The Sculpture Factory by Quayola is a showing of digital fabrication as different finishes of a 3D scanned sculpture are milled out in foam by a robot. By arranging the six unfinished trial sculptures for reference comparisons, Quayola creates a “hybrid vision – a slow process of discovery not focused on the original figure but on the infinite possibilities of how to reach it” (Quayola).

What I know about the algorithm Quayola uses for the robot is that its outcome is to refine overtime. The first sculpture, for example, uses the main, block shapes to punch out connected mountains of form, and smaller, more defined tools will detail the indentations on these mountains more, working with a large shape and finishing at the top also. The last mill moves linearly to erase the harsh steps of these mountains and create definition.