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Kinematics Petals Dress II by Nervous System Inc.
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2016/29/1Object Statement
Dress, Kinematics Petals Dress II, selective laser sintered nylon tessellated triangular panels from 3D scan, designed and made by Nervous System Inc, Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2016Physical Description
Sleeveless dress with fitted waist and knee length full skirt. The dress is constructed of tessellated triangular panels made from selective laser sintered nylon, which has been printed by a 3D printing machine, in one piece. The petals are bright red in colour, and comprise more than 1600 unique pieces interconnected by more than 2600 hinges. Centre back fastenings with magnets.Marks
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https://ma.as/538704Production
Made
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This dress was created by Nervous System, Inc., in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, in 2016, for the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.The garment was made by using 3D scans of a female body, and designing the dress in a computer aided drawing software application. The dress is 3D-printed in durable nylon plastic by selective laser sintering. While the design is composed of more than 1600 unique pieces interconnected by more than 2600 hinges, it emerges from the 3D printer fully assembled and ready to wear.
History
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Nervous System was founded in 2007 by designers Jessica Rosenkranz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg in Massachusetts, USA. The studio applies technologies in design which include generative systems, 3D printing, and webGL.The Kinematics Petal Dress II is part of a design series which began in 2014 with the aim of creating fashion garments which are both printable, and as wearable and comfortable as a conventional linen garment. The first Kinematics Dress was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The third version of the Kinematics Dress was created in March 2015 for an exhibition at the Bozar Center for Fine Arts in Brussels curated by Marta Malé-Alemany entitled 'Making A Difference / A Difference in Making'. The fourth version of the Kinematics Dress was 3D-printed in March 2015. This dress is in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) commissioned Nervous System to create a new dress for the exhibition #techstyle in 2016.
This dress, Kinematics Petals Dress II, was created for the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in 2016 for the Museum's presentation of the 'Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital' exhibition.
Source
Credit Line
Purchased with funds from the MAAS Foundation, 2016Acquisition Date
15 August 2016Cite this Object
Harvard
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