[im] 3D kurzus

[János Sugár]

>Last October, two artists entered the Neues Museum in Berlin,
>where they clandestinely scanned the bust of Queen Nefertiti,
>the state museum's prized gem. Three months later, they
>released the collected 3D dataset online as a torrent
>(http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com/NefertitiHack3D.torrent),
>providing completely free access under public domain to the one object
>in the museum's collection off-limits to photographers. Anyone may
>download and remix the information now; the artists themselves used it
>to create a 3D-printed, one-to-one polymer resin model they claim is
>the most precise replica of the bust ever made, with just micrometer
>variations. That bust now resides permanently in the American
>University of Cairo as a stand-in for the original, 3,300-year-old
>work that was removed from its country of origin shortly after its
>discovery in 1912 by German archaeologists in Amarna.
>
>The project, called "The Other Nefertiti," is the work of
>German-Iraqi artist Nora Al-Badri and German artist Jan Nikolai
>Nelles, who consider their actions an artistic intervention to make
>cultural objects publicly available to all. For years, Germany and
>Egypt have hotly disputed the rightful location of the stucco-coated,
>limestone Queen, with Egyptian officials claiming that she left the
>country illegally and demanding the Neues Museum return her. With this
>controversy of ownership in mind, Al-Badri and Nelles also want, more
>broadly, for museums to reassess their collections with a critical eye
>and consider how they present the narratives of objects from other
>cultures they own as a result of colonial histories.

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>http://hyperallergic.com/274635/artists-covertly-scan-bust-of-nefertiti-and-release-the-data-for-free-online/