Can Everyone experience culture through a 3D print? Artist Morehshin Allahyari created a piece called Material Speculation: Isis 2015 about the original King Uthal sculpture that you see destroyed in the film (an overt Can Everyone experience culture through a 3D print? Artist Morehshin Allahyari created a piece called Material Speculation: Isis 2015 about the original King Uthal sculpture that you see destroyed in the film (an overt appetite to silence the history of Iraq that was not Islamic, to destroy the past and culture) Allahyari made a 3D copies and made the original files available to download so anyone can have their own exhibitions - How is she activating the dispersal of information, visual objects and data that cannot be contained in distribution or meaning (no one owns it, anyone can make it, the object is not what is valuable). She is an example of an Additivist (Additive + Activism) challenging western ideas of originality and ownership.  This is a challenging question to think about.  I invite you to click on the link and tell me if you think that she is stripping the power from institutions (like museums and terrorist groups) to control value and circulation? Things to discuss: Is this one way to make art more 'democratic' or is it just cheap copy? How would you describe what the artist's intent is? If you had a 3D printer, would you print a King Uthal? What would it mean to you?appetite to silence the history of Iraq that was not Islamic, to destroy the past and culture) Allahyari made a 3D copies and made the original files available to download so anyone can have their own exhibitions - How is she activating the dispersal of information, visual objects and data that cannot be contained in distribution or meaning (no one owns it, anyone can make it, the object is not what is valuable). She is an example of an Additivist (Additive + Activism) challenging western ideas of originality and ownership.  This is a challenging question to think about.  I invite you to click on the link and tell me if you think that she is stripping the power from institutions (like museums and terrorist groups) to control value and circulation? Things to discuss: Is this one way to make art more 'democratic' or is it just cheap copy? How would you describe what the artist's intent is? If you had a 3D printer, would you print a King Uthal? What would it mean to you?

below is the link 

https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/feb/16/morehshin-allahyari/