3D scanning and 3D printing have the unique abilities to take what might otherwise be locked away in a museum or anchored to a specific locale and transport them across the world to a given person’s own home. Transforming historical artifacts and pieces of art into digital, 3D printable data not only opens up our global heritage to anyone with access to a computer and a 3D printer, but it opens that heritage up to interpretation and reinterpretation. With the advent of 3D printing and scanning, anyone can make famous works their own through artistic manipulation. To showcase this new art form, archeologist Ashley Richter and computer scientist Vid Petrovic are planning to launch an art exhibition in San Diego, California, with a little help from the Kickstarter community.…
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