30 Sep 2010, Posted by admin in Artsanity, 0 Comments
lucas maassen at cite showroom
Lucas Maassen thinks about his designs. Sometimes in pursuit of the concept the object may loose its traditional functionality, but thats besides the point. His current show “Conceivably, the object is what it seems” at the CITE showroom is full of chairs, but not all of them are for sitting on.
Perhaps the most literal expression of how Maassen designs what he thinks is the Brainwave Sofa. The shape of the chair is based on a readout of alpha activity in his brain the moment he closes his eyes. The 3D graph is reproduced on an enormous scale to create the sofa. It is suggested that this may be the way of design in the future–designers will only have to close their eyes while a computer “prints” the object.
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