18 March 2010

Reception 5:00p to 7:00p

Larry & Dorothy Rainosek Family Gallery

UNM Architecture Building

2401 Central Ave NE

The University of New Mexico Architecture Gallery will host an exhibition on digital fabrication curated by Fab Lab ABQ. Digital fabrication is the process of making a digital design into a physical object. It is an evolution of the creative process through which the conceptual and the abstract is made real.

Traditional modeling and prototyping often resulted in a choice between rough approximations of the intended design or a highly accurate but costly and time consuming result. Digital Fabrication is facilitating the effort of artists, designers, and inventors by lowering traditional barriers to experimentation and exploration by lowering materials and distribution costs. In the DIY communities, among basement inventors, and developing communities, digital fabrication is allowing for small scale manufacturing of working parts and tools that allow for everything from kinetic sculptures and wearable electronics to production of custom antennae that can network villages or fabrication of otherwise unavailable parts to repair existing agricultural equipment.

We hope that you will join us for this exhibition. Digital fabrication is a rapidly evolving set of tools and processes that is changing how we bring ideas into the world and this exhibit can only offer a glimpse at the many ways it is being deployed but we hope that it may provide an introduction that is both engaging and informative.