Luke Jerram at work in the Museum of Glass hotshop during his November 2011 residency.
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on?
Luke Jerram: At the moment, I’m investigating the implications of the visualization of data. I think there’s a lot of that going on. And what it means to turn a line into three-dimensional form. It sounds a bit weird, but an example of that would be taking the 28 seconds that the Hiroshima bomb was going off. I have the sound file, and I rotated that sound file on the computer to create this … well, it looks almost like a carrot which is the only problem with it … it’s rotated on a computer to create this virtual 3-D form, then it’s printed as on a 3-D printer. I quite like 3-D printing because at no point is the human hand involved. You’re taking out any man-made element. You’re just taking data, transforming it, printing it as a three-dimensional form to create something else. Continue reading
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