Intersculpt2003 - The School of Design, Unitec and the Quay School of Fine Arts, Wanganui Ucol are sponsoring the NZ site of Intersculpt2003, organized by Marcus Williams and Brit Bunkley. Intersculpt2003 - The School of Design, Unitec and the Quay School of Fine Arts, Wanganui Ucol are sponsoring the NZ site of Intersculpt2003, organized by Marcus Williams and Brit Bunkley.Intersculpt is an exciting biennial 3D digital event that will take place this year at the UNITEC Snowwhite gallery in Auckland, with the partnership of CadCam services, the Australasian representative of Z-Corp. (Z-Corp is the premier manufacturer of powder based rapid prototyping 3D printing machines.)

In addition to showcasing the work of 15 artists and designers who use 3D software, we will also have the Z-Corp 3D printer at Snowwhite gallery. Using this unique machine, the process of rapid prototyping will be demonstrated by printing selected artists' sculptures and 3d design objects on site. Many of the artists will also send, via the Internet, 3D STL files of artwork to be printed as duplicate 3D rapid prototype objects at overseas Intersculpt sites.

The opening date for the exhibition, Intersculpt2003 opening is Monday, 20th October at 5:30, closing November 8th Snowwhite, Unitec Faculty of Architecture and Design Building One, Gate One, Carrington Road, Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand.

Intersculpt2001 first opened in nine cities world-wide November, 2001. The New Zealand site of the show, Intersculpt2001: New Zealand was the first sculpture exhibition of its kind centred in NZ, bringing together sculptors and other 3D influenced cyber artists from around the world who use the computer as part of their practice. Intersculpt2001: New Zealand was shown at the Sarjeant Gallery November 2001 then travelled to the Adam Gallery at Victoria University in Wellington.

Global Intersculpt Sites:
Christian Lavigne (artist and founder of Intersculpt) will be hosting an event in Paris, France at La Francc Digitale. (http://www.pimkey.com/~interscu/is2003/intro-is2003.htm)
Derrick Woodham (University of Cincinnati) has agreed to do the VR Sculpture Park out of Cincinnati (www.activeworld.com).
Dan Collins will contribute from PRISM, at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, (www. telesculpture.prism.asu.edu/digital_sculpture.htm).
Mary Visser will bring the International Sculpture Exhibition on board for IS2003 Texas - touring though the US (www.rpsculpture.org).
Paul Higham has confirmed from New Orleans to host the event at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (www.jonathanferraragallery.com/).
Ian Gibson has confirmed from Hong Kong. (www.para-site.org.hk/)
Keith Brown (University Of Manchester ), has been offered space in the 1830s Warehouse at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester (www.finearts.mmu.ac.uk/fast-uk/).
Sites in Kanpur will be at IT Kanpur (www.iitk.ac.in/cad/news_and_events.htm)
And Dakar at Espace de Creation Multimedia Kër Thiossane in Dakar (www.ker-thiossane.com).
Global events planned:
Virtual Reality Installations
Digital 3D Prints
Integral Projection Installations, mixing the virtual with the real
Large Scale Digital Sculpture
Digital Sculptors' Videos
Solid Imaging with support from Zcorp, Stratasys and 3D Systems
Haptics with the Phantom and FreeForm from Sensable Teleconferencing

A preliminary list of artists (with affiliations) for the Intersculpt:2003 show at Snowwhite Gallery are as follows:
Ian Gwilt (Sydney Institute of Technology),
Elona Van Ghent (Grand Valley State University Michigan),
Robert Michael Smith (New York Institute of Technology),
Eugene Hansen (Massey University, Wellington),
Susan Jowsey with Marcus Williams (UNITEC),
Ron Young (UNITEC),
John Lyall (UNITEC),
Dean Bruton (University of Adelaide),
Keith Brown (University Of Manchester),
Christian Lavigne (Ars Mathematica),
Hye Rim Lee (Auckland artist),
Brit Bunkley (Wanganui UCOL) with Andrea Gardner (Artist),
Michael Rees (New York Institute of Technology)

For more information look at:
www.pimkey.com/~interscu/-http://www.pimkey.com/~interscu/is2003/intro-is2003.htm

The ISC Web Special, "Fluid Borders: The Aesthetic Evolution of Digital Sculpture", by Christine Paul (editor of "Intelligent Agent", author of Thames and Hudson's new survey book, "Digital Art" and curator of digital art for the Whitney Museum in NYC) at:
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/webspec/digscul/digscul.htm

Some other important links for Intersculpt and digital sculpture:
http://www.rpsculpture.org
http://www.fast-uk.mmu.ac.uk/#
www.sculpture.org/documents/complab/comp.htm

DAAP, the first Active worlds world of virtual sculpture on line, is hosting the virtual exhibition of Intersculpt 2001 and Intersculpt 2003 at:

http://www.activeworlds.com/newsletter
http://www.cerhas.uc.edu/dwoodham/daapinst.htm

For more information on the local venue, please contact Marcus Williams at mwilliams@unitec.ac.nz or Brit Bunkley at b.bunkley@ucol.ac.nz